{"title":"The Emergence and Consolidation of Microsimulation Methods in France","authors":"François Legendre","doi":"10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1997","url":null,"abstract":"[eng] The purpose of this paper is to trace the gradual emergence of microsimulation models dedicated to the analysis of tax and social security policies in France since the mid-1960s, as well as their subsequent consolidation since the mid-2000s. A brief outline of these models is given using the static/dynamic distinction. A connection is made between the construction of the Mir model (standing for Modele de l'impot sur le revenu, an income tax model) and the development of the Household income survey Revenus fiscaux. Then we distinguish two periods: An initial period that saw a proliferation of such models and a second period, of standardisation, during which the Ines model has acquired a central position. Besides ongoing evaluations (of minimum income and pension schemes, insurance for long-term care), the most recent expectations in this area relate to the ex ante evaluation of measures designed to accelerate the ecological transition and of universal income -type schemes. Finally, we underline that the recent replacement of all the periodic declarations made by employers to various administrations by a unique declaration (the Declaration sociale nominative, or DSN) significantly renews the range of administrative sources capable of feeding into these models.","PeriodicalId":38830,"journal":{"name":"Economie et Statistique","volume":"9 1","pages":"201-217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83325662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fifty Years of Abstracts in the Journal Economie et Statistique","authors":"Julie Djiriguian, François Sémécurbe","doi":"10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1999","url":null,"abstract":"Natural language processing, is nowadays a toolbox routinely used to explore the content of various texts. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the journal Économie et Statistique (then Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics), we propose in this short article an application to the abstracts of the 2,184 “academic” articles published in this journal since 1969 (see Box). Which words are most frequently used? What underlying topics do they suggest and have these topics changed over the years?","PeriodicalId":38830,"journal":{"name":"Economie et Statistique","volume":"40 1","pages":"7-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74581529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Value Do We Attach to Climate Action?","authors":"A. Quinet","doi":"10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1995","url":null,"abstract":"[eng] In the course of policy making to mitigate the effects of climate change, economists seek to attach a monetary value to actual or foregone carbon emissions. Charting a long term pathway for carbon prices involves measuring the most cost effective way to reduce emissions, assigning value to long term investment, and having a benchmark against which to set priorities. The carbon neutrality target, as set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement, calls for higher carbon values in monetary terms than those historically obtained under Factor 4 targets derived from a cost benefit approach. This paper looks at developments in carbon values over time, with an emphasis on their underlying methodologies and the role of uncertainty in valuation. It then sets out how carbon values can be used in policy making to mitigate the effects of climate change.","PeriodicalId":38830,"journal":{"name":"Economie et Statistique","volume":"83 1","pages":"165-179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79986429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Causal Inference and Impact Evaluation","authors":"D. Fougère, N. Jacquemet","doi":"10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1996","url":null,"abstract":"[eng] This paper describes, in a non technical way, the main impact evaluation methods, both experimental and quasi experimental, and the statistical model underlying them. In the first part, we provide a brief survey of the papers making use of those methods that have been published by the journal Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics over the past fifteen years. In the second part, some of the most important methodological advances to have recently been put forward in this field of research are presented. To finish, we focus not only on the need to pay particular attention to the accuracy of the estimated effects, but also on the requirement to replicate evaluations, carried out by experimentation or quasi experimentation, in order to distinguish false positives from proven effects.","PeriodicalId":38830,"journal":{"name":"Economie et Statistique","volume":"28 1","pages":"181-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82117591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Labor Share in the Long Term: A Decline?","authors":"G. Cette, Lorraine Koehl, Thomas Philippon","doi":"10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1993","url":null,"abstract":"[eng] We challenge the accepted wisdom of a global secular decline in the labor share. A simple theoretical model is proposed to highlight the main factors of change in the labor share. We document three issues in the existing literature: (i) starting periods for the empirical analysis; (ii) accounting for self employment; and (iii) accounting for residential real estate income. An empirical analysis is carried out since the post war period for France and the United States, and since the 1990s for ten developed countries and on a six country “euro area”. How the three questions above are addressed is crucial to the diagnosis. When the biases that may arise with the three issues mentioned above are eliminated, the labor share in the market sector does not show a general downward or upward trend. The choice of period has a huge impact, as does the treatment of real estate services, whose inclusion or not in the value added can result in significantly different trends.","PeriodicalId":38830,"journal":{"name":"Economie et Statistique","volume":"22 1","pages":"35-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82468232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preface – Times Have Changed","authors":"Daniel Cohen","doi":"10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1986","url":null,"abstract":"[eng] So much water has flowed under the bridge since the first issue of Economie et Statistique. Fifty years ago, France was just emerging from the political and social big chaos of May 1968. The country was driven by a powerful growth spurt, known as the Trente Glorieuses (or the Thirty Glorious Years), according to the famous term coined by Jean Fourastie…","PeriodicalId":38830,"journal":{"name":"Economie et Statistique","volume":"510 1","pages":"13-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82933652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Major Transformations of the French Labour Market Since the Early 1960s","authors":"O. Marchand, C. Minni","doi":"10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1989","url":null,"abstract":"[eng] This paper looks at the major changes in the French labour market since the 1960s. Over this period, the labour force has steadily increased, primarily owing to demo¬graphics (the post war baby boom). The labour force also saw increasing female employment, higher qualifications and a reduction in the length of working life at both ends. Three factors have driven changes in labour market trends in the last 50 years: economic globalisation, the emergence of ICT and development of automation, and the growth of the service economy, particularly financial services. For their part, employment policies have sought to “enrich” the employment content of growth. After the 1974 break in the growth trend, the interaction of labour supply and demand led to rising unemployment and increasing diversity in employ¬ment statuses. The growth of short term and very short term contracts, as well as arrange¬ments falling between salaried and non salaried employment, illustrate a significant increase in employment precariousness.","PeriodicalId":38830,"journal":{"name":"Economie et Statistique","volume":"18 1","pages":"89-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87647660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Income and Wealth Inequality in France: Developments and Links over the Long Term","authors":"Bertrand Garbinti, Jonathan Goupille-Lebret","doi":"10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24187/ecostat.2019.510t.1988","url":null,"abstract":"[eng] This article sheds light on the long term development of income and wealth inequality and the link between them in France. Following a sharp decline in inequality that began at the beginning of the First World War, a trend towards inequality has emerged (and continues) since the mid 1980s. The historical perspective makes it possible to illustrate how small changes in inequality in savings, returns or earnings can have strong long term effects on wealth concen-tration. Two other major trends have been observed since the 1970s. One is the narrowing of the gap in labour income between men and women – although it remains high. The other is the increased difficulty, for those who only have access to labour income, to access the high¬est wealth brackets. Finally, our comparisons between France and the United States show that wealth and income inequalities were comparable or even lower in the United States before the 1970s. That country has since become much more unequal.","PeriodicalId":38830,"journal":{"name":"Economie et Statistique","volume":"79 1","pages":"69-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79449519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction – New Impacts of Globalization","authors":"Flora Bellone","doi":"10.24187/ECOSTAT.2018.503D.1958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24187/ECOSTAT.2018.503D.1958","url":null,"abstract":"This special thematic feature on “New impacts of globalization” was developed, in partnership with the French Economic Association (Association francaise de science economique, AFSE), from the contributions presented at its 66th annual congress which took place in Nice in June 2017. The four articles published here illustrate the different channels by which a country's international opennessth impacts its wealth, employment and subnational inequalities. This introduction builds on these works to present some recent avenues of research for modelling and quantifying the impacts of globalization.","PeriodicalId":38830,"journal":{"name":"Economie et Statistique","volume":"103 1","pages":"79-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78067227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kim Antunez, B. Baccaïni, M. Guérois, Ronan Ysebaert
{"title":"Disparities and territorial discontinuities in France with its new regions: A multiscalar and multidimensional interpretation","authors":"Kim Antunez, B. Baccaïni, M. Guérois, Ronan Ysebaert","doi":"10.24187/ECOSTAT.2017.497D.1928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24187/ECOSTAT.2017.497D.1928","url":null,"abstract":"[eng] Since 1 January 2016, the 22 French metropolitan regions have merged to form 13 new regions. The deployment of public policies in these regions with enhanced areas of jurisdiction leads us to wonder about the way in which the merger leads to the reduction of territorial disparities or not. We analyse these disparities using five sociodemographic indicators. Several geographical levels are mobilised : the European Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) and the French employment zones. The main characteristics of the new regions in a national and European context are highlighted using statistical and spatial data analysis methods. Inter-regional contrasts are relatively low in France, in comparison with those prevailing in other European States. The main discontinuities are found between countries rather than between regions within a country. At the national level, some merged regions appear relatively homogeneous (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte and Normandie) compared to others more contrasted (Hauts-de-France, Occitanie, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes and Grand Est). The main territorial discontinuities are observed within the same regions and not between them.","PeriodicalId":38830,"journal":{"name":"Economie et Statistique","volume":"150 1","pages":"19-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86662262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}