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Despite changes recently introduced within higher education (cluster-building policies, the influence of university rankings, etc.) which may have fueled fears of a disparity between a pocket of world-class universities and a vast group of second-tier universities, relatively few quantitative studie...
Using data from the Base Centrale Scolarité (exhaustive data on pupils and schools, BCS), we highlight a number of stylised facts regarding changes to the targeting of priority education during the 2004-2016 period and inter-secondary school segregation. To start, we observe a decline in the proport...
Assessing the ability of schools to help their students to progress is a complex exercise, as it is difficult to distinguish between the effects brought about by the school itself and those resulting from the characteristics of the students they enrol. This article starts by describing the two main...
This article analyses the impact of employee shareholding and participation in governance bodies on the performance and cash distribution policy of French companies. This empirical work is based on data from a combination of three sources (IODS, Eikon and Thomson Reuters) for a sample of listed comp...
Felouzis Georges. Inégalités scolaires et politiques éducatives : une introduction / School Inequalities and Educational Policies: An Introduction. In: Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, n°528-529, 2021. pp. 3-8.
School‑based skills assessments, such as those conducted with PISA, are well established and show significant differences between students depending on their parents’ occupation, geographical origin and gender, at the end of primary school or at the end of secondary school. This article, using surve...
Urbanisation is usually modelled to account for the trade-off between the rent from an agricultural and urban land-use in a location. In this article, we propose a model that includes a characterisation of the land in respect of not only its economic and physical aspects, but also using variables in...
In France, married couples or couples in civil partnerships must declare their resources jointly and are allocated two tax units. This tax system, referred to as the marital quotient, represents a financial package of around 10 billion euros. Using the Ines microsimulation model, we simulate three r...
The articles by Allègre et al. (2021) and André & Sireyjol (2021) document in detail, using microsimulations, the redistributive impacts of the familialization of the income tax, and thus contribute to the important debate on this specific system of household income taxation in France. To discuss th...
The aim of this article is to analyse the degree of segmentation and restriction within the French artistic jobs system by studying the example of dance and circus arts. On the basis of the distribution of job structure and volume of work, it investigates the conditions of inclusion within a “profes...
This study examines the budgetary and redistributive effects of marital and family income taxation in France. On the basis of the Ines microsimulation model, it proposes a complete methodology for individualising incomes and the various tax schemes targeting couples and families. By comparing income...
This paper analyses the change in spatial income inequality across the departments of metropolitan France since 1922. Its most significant contribution is the reconstruction of average fiscal income per department, before and after the payment of income tax, based on an unprecedented use of archives...
This study quantifies undeclared work patterns in France using a unique pilot survey which collects data on households' demand and supply of undeclared work (Enquête pilote auprès des ménages sur la fraude). It also proposes an international comparison at the European level using Eurobarometer data....
The Innovation tax credit (crédit d’impôt innovation, CII) is an extension of the Research tax credit (crédit d’impôt recherche, CIR) intended to boost the incentive effect of the latter on SMEs to encourage them to engage in the creation of new products via the development of prototypes or pilot in...
This paper aims to understand how the labour market integration of migrants in Europe is affected, in an interrelated fashion, by their reason for migration and their region of origin. Using recent data from the European Labour Force Survey, we distinguish immigrants to Europe between four migration...
The law on the adaptation of society to ageing, which reformed the home care allowance APA, entered into force on 1 March 2016. This article aims to study the effect of this on the amounts proposed in plans by the medical and welfare teams (EMS), first theoretically and then empirically, on more tha...
In 2009, a system of pay-for-performance (P4P) was offered to physicians in France via the Contrat d’Amélioration des Pratiques Individuelles (CAPI). This study assesses the causal impact of CAPI on their behaviour in terms of care provision. Based on a panel of general practitioners in private prac...
– This study analyses the preferences of the French population with regard to the genetic information that is potentially accessible thanks to genomic medicine. More specifically, it is a question of knowing whether or not the French population (i) is in favour of knowing all possible results with r...
Combining work and a pension is one of the ways of extending ones working life that is being encouraged under the 2003 pension reforms. In 2019, 3% of retirees under the general scheme were thus in paid employment in the private sector and, of individuals having retired under the general scheme sinc...
This study analyses the healthcare consumption of self‑employed workers (SEW) versus employees, at different ages in France. It is based on 2012 cross‑sectional data from the French Health, Healthcare and Insurance Survey (ESPS) matched with National Health Insurance data. We decompose healthcare de...
Whilst it is forbidden to charge patients with CMU‑C health cover fees in excess of the reimbursable regulated fee (or extra‑fees), so as to make their access to care easier, field experiment studies report discrimination against the latter by physicians. This issue is approached here from the angle...
This article analyses the impact of a transition from employment to unemployment on alcohol and tobacco consumption, and more specifically on risky behaviours. With cross-section data, we observe significant differences between the employed and the unemployed both in terms of frequency and quantity...
Leaving the parental home happens at a relatively young age in France but not much is known about spatial variations in this. Using data from the DREES-Insee Enquête nationale sur les ressources des jeunes (ENRJ, national survey on the resources of young adults), this work analyses the differences i...
The school-to-work-transition in Italy suffers a number of critical issues. This paper documents the employment prospects of young Italians graduates during the economic recession (2008-2014) and in the subsequent period of recovery (2015-2017). The analysis, based on data from the European Labour F...