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