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What's the new category? Currently in France there is: - employment where you trade liberty (i.e. subordination) against protection (can't be fired at will, minimum wage, guarantee…

You are conflating Uber and the Uber driver. The driver does not quote anything, Uber does and both the driver and the customer accept or not. They have a very limited way to choos…

Only if Uber chooses to, it does not have to.

Yes. Changing the itinerary as well.

There is nothing that prevents Uber from providing flexibility. The court has not ruled that Uber contracts were illegal, but that they were employment contracts (obviously, with t…

Are you implying that French courts change their rulings to benefit the government policies (hurting foreign companies in this case) rather than simply basing them on the law?

While it is possible to argue against it on a philosophical ground, in French law contracts are not the most basic construct, and they have to comply with higher legal norms such a…

Labour law (in France at least, I do not know about the US) is based on - for the lack of a better expression - reals over feelz: what matters is the actual relationship between th…

My plumber is an actual independent worker, setting his own rates, having his own clientele and free to organize his work as he sees fit.

This is a different point that the one I made.

Indeed, now they can (but do not have to) require regular shifts.

They cannot force French drivers to work certain hours (under their current contracts), but this is not relevant to their work status: > The fact that the driver is not obliged to …

Do they work with limited supervision? The company imposes the itinerary and the driver’s fare is adjusted if this itinerary is not followed. The monitoring is automatic instead of…

A significant part of health care expenses are covered by _mutuelles_, (now mandatory) employer-provided, non-profit health insurance 'companies'. According to wikipedia [0], about…

It is called Guyane in French. Given that the locals are not English native speakers, I fail to see how the English name influences their national identity.

This is not a lie if these changes do not do anything but later ones will.

Growth can come both from using more inputs (capital, energy, labor) or using the same input more efficiently (i.e. technological progress). There is no reason to claim that only t…

This is especially at the world stage. In a zero-sum economy, either some countries are left in an awful state of poverty for ever (no growth, same distribution of income) or peopl…

Ok, so you are agreeing with the comment you said you were disagreeing with (zero sum economy means if someone increases their amount of stuff, someone else must have less stuff, o…

Durable goods obfuscate the issue, but let's take your example. Let's say I want to have both an all-terrain car for the weekend and my regular car on the weekdays. I now consume t…

So if 1. the same amount of goods and services is produced and 2. you get more goods and/or services this year than last year, this means than 3. someone else must have less goods …

You’re only talking about the “income tax” (IR), leaving out the CSG, a flat tax on income, and the various social contributions, which are based on labour income. The CSG brings m…

SF (or SOF for Americans) would better be light infantry: >Light infantry is a designation applied to certain types of foot soldiers (infantry) throughout history, typically having…

See [0] for the "credibility revolution" [0] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.24.2.3

Is there nothing between RCTs and "high-fives" to estimate causal effects? Economists seem to run awfully long journal articles if they all boil down to high fives.