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Is the German experience applicable to France?
[L’expérience allemande est-elle transposable à la France?]

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  • Nathalie Chusseau

    (LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221 - UA - Université d'Artois - UCL - Université catholique de Lille - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Joël Hellier

    (LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221 - UA - Université d'Artois - UCL - Université catholique de Lille - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes)

Abstract

This article questions the consequences for France of a policy that would replicate part of the German experience since the mid-2000s and addresses the possibility of alternative strategies. Utilising the CGE model built by Beissinger et alii (2016), we implement a series of simulations to analyse the impacts of: (i) a German-type labour market reform lessening the reservation wage, and (ii) a policy which stimulates demand for non-tradable services. We show that: (i) structural differences could make a German-type policy less efficient and more painful (in terms of inequality) in France, and (ii) public action which directly targets demand for non-tradable services could provide an alternative policy.

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  • Nathalie Chusseau & Joël Hellier, 2017. "Is the German experience applicable to France? [L’expérience allemande est-elle transposable à la France?]," Post-Print hal-01794564, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01794564
    DOI: 10.3917/ecop.211.0139
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