Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Buy Book in Print
France: Selected Issues
Author:
International Monetary Fund
Search for other papers by International Monetary Fund in
Current site
Google Scholar Close
Series:
IMF Staff Country Reports
Volume/Issue:
Volume 2003: Issue 335
Language:
English
Publication Date:
29 Oct 2003
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451813548.002
ISBN:
9781451813548
ISSN:
1934-7685
Pages:
89
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; ALMPs Affect Employment; income; labour market; total factor productivity growth; labor market; proportional tax; tax burden; capital service; ALMP exp; Total factor productivity; Personal income tax; Social security contributions; Corporate income tax; Labor taxes; Europe; Global
Download PDF (3.7 MB) Download Epub
This Selected Issues paper first explains the recent increase in trend growth and then discusses how labor market and tax policies could best sustain it. This study calculates French trend growth estimating simultaneously a Cobb–Douglas production technology and total factor productivity. The main conclusion is that French trend growth indeed increased during the second half of the 1990s to an average annual rate of 2.1 percent, from 1.8 percent in 1993. This was not owing to a recovery of total factor productivity growth.
  • Collapse
  • Expand
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
IMF Staff Country Reports
ISSN:
1934-7685
Publisher:
International Monetary Fund