Blôss (Thierry), Frickey (Alain), Noví (Michel). - Ways of Entering Adult Life and Decisions of Married Women Demographers and sociologists have increasingly studied the relationship between events in the life course and women's work. In this paper, the extent to which different ways of...

La taille des fratries est une variable que les études statistiques prennent classiquement en compte, parmi bien d'autres, pour décrire le déroulement des scolarités. Déjà la grande enquête de l'INED du début des années 1960 sur l'entrée en 6ème et la démocratisation de...

À l'automne 2013 plusieurs faits divers ont soulevé une nouvelle fois la question du racisme en France. Ce document apporte des éléments statistiques inédits sur l'expérience du phénomène chez les immigrés et les descendants d'immigrés ainsi que parmi les personnes originaires d'un...

Ce papier propose une étude économétrique sur le phénomène croissant d’oppositions de brevets. Plus spécifiquement, l’étude s’intéresse à l’impact de différents déterminants susceptibles d’influencer l’incidence d’oppositions de brevets déposés par des résidents...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the pattern of knowledge flows as indicated by patent citations. In order to compute the technological proximity, we have followed the methodology developed by Jaffe (1986), where a technological vector is based on the distribution of patents of each...

This paper analyses the voting and abstention patterns in French departments in the 1992 referendum on the Maastricht treaty, in light of the potential impact of monetary union. We observe that departmental characteristics implying either greater benefits or lower costs from monetary union are...

Using a sample of 96 countries over the nineties, this paper examines the extent to which different dimensions of governance affect FDI inflows. It considers six aspects of governance. The results of a least-squares estimation suggest a positive relationship between institutional quality and...

Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private sector for a sample of five European economies: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Spain. Using different methods, we examine how wage structure, differences in the distribution...

Using a unique harmonized matched employer-employee dataset (European Structure of Earnings Survey, 1995), we study the impact of the regime of collective bargaining on wages in the manufacturing sector of three countries that are characterized by a multilevel system of bargaining: Belgium,...

Today, the shareholding structure of companies is sometimes so complex that it can be difficult to find back their actual owners and controllers. In particular, in continental Europe and in Asia, control tunnelling appears frequently through pyramidal structure. After describing the ownership...