What minimum wage for Germany?
By Odile Chagny and Sabine Le Bayon The campaign for the parliamentary elections taking place on 22 September in Germany has engendered a broad debate […]
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A fiscal policy to promote structural reform – lessons from the German case
By Eric Heyer “France should copy Germany’s reforms to thrive”, Gerhard Schröder entitled an opinion piece in the Financial Times on 5 June 2013. As […]
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 […]
Higher unemployment in France, greater poverty in Germany
By Eric Heyer Will France be the new Greece, as The Economist has argued? Should French reforms be accelerated and be modelled on those implemented […]
France-Germany: The big demographic gap
By Gérard Cornilleau The divergence in the demographic trajectories of Germany and France will have a major impact on social spending, labour markets, productive capacity […]
Will Germany be caught up in the recession of its European partners?
Christophe Blot and Sabine Le Bayon Can Germany avoid the recession that is hitting a growing number of countries in the euro zone? While Germany’s […]
Working hours and economic performance: What lessons can be drawn from the Coe-Rexecode report?
By Eric Heyer and Mathieu Plane Do people work less in France than in the rest of Europe? Is France the only country to have […]