The 2013 pension reform: the implicit contribution of pensioners’ purchasing power
By Stéphane Hamayon and Florence Legros Less than three years after the official retirement age in France was raised in 2010-2011, a new pension reform […]
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Growth in the 4th quarter of 2013, but …
By Hervé Péléraux According to the OFCE’s leading indicator, the French economy has grown by 0.5% in the fourth quarter of 2013. This result, which […]
Important change of course at the Elysée Palace. Austerity is no longer the priority
By Xavier Timbeau, Twitter: @XTimbeau (published in Le Monde on Thursday 16 January 2014, p. 17) When he was elected François Hollande made fiscal discipline […]
TOFLIT18: for a better understanding of the French economy
By Loïc Charles and Guillaume Daudin* Recurrent questions on our economies are, to quote a few: Which factors and actors are key for economic development? […]
Is the French tax-benefit system really redistributive?
By Henri Sterdyniak [1] France has set up benefits such as RSA income support, PPE in-work negative income tax, CMU universal health care, the minimum pension, housing […]
The trend in unemployment: no reversal in sight
By Bruno Ducoudré The government has announced that the trend in unemployment will be reversed by the end of 2013. The number of jobseekers registered […]
France: less austerity, more growth
By Eric Heyer This text summarizes the OFCE’s 2013-2014 forecast for the French economy. In 2013, the French economy should experience annual average growth of […]
France-Germany: is there a demographic dividend?
By Vincent Touzé Thanks to a high birth rate, France is aging less quickly than Germany. According to Eurostat, the French population is expected to […]
Never on Sunday?*
By Xavier Timbeau * Note from the editor: This text was initially published on 10 June 2008 on the OFCE site under the heading “Clair […]
France, Germany: The nonworking poor
By Guillaume Allègre “The ways of thinking society, managing it and quantifying it are indissolubly linked” Alain Desrosières, 1940-2013 The subject of working poverty emerged […]