Gilbert Cette is a French economist specializing in the study of growth, the labor market, productivity, and collective bargaining.A graduate of ENSAE, he holds a PhD from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Since 1995, he has been an associate professor of economics at the University of ...
Gilbert Cette is a French economist specializing in the study of growth, the labor market, productivity, and collective bargaining.
A graduate of ENSAE, he holds a PhD from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Since 1995, he has been an associate professor of economics at the University of Mediterranean Aix-Marseille II. He has also served as a lecturer at ENA.
From 1992 to 1995, Gilbert Cette was in charge of the “Growth and macroeconomic policies” division at INSEE.
He received the Economist of the Year Award in 1996, in the category of “Public Decision Support: Employment”.
From 1998 to 2000, he undertook a mission with the Minister of Employment and Solidarity.
Gilbert Cette is currently a member of the Council of Economic Analysis, within which he has published several reports, including Refounding Labor Law: Reconciling Labor Protection and Economic Efficiency, with Jacques Barthélémy (2010), The Levers of French Growth, with Philippe Aghion, Élie Cohen, and Jean Pisani-Ferry (2007), and Productivity and Growth, with Patrick Artus (2004).
In 2009, he was appointed a member of the expert group on the minimum wage (SMIC).
Since July 2012, he has been the president of AFSE (French Association of Economic Science).
Among his latest published works: The Sharing of Value Added with Philippe Azkenazy and Arnaud Sylvain (Paris, La Découverte, 2011), Productivity and Growth in Europe and the United States (La Découverte, 2007).