The extension of the Bamako informal sector project to the other cities is the occasion for the 1986 survey of 87 blacksmiths, leather workers, weavers, shoe makers, metal workers and carpenters in Tombouctou. They are organized in four trade associations supported by the ILO-executed technical...

We investigate farm size inequality in France using agricultural censuses and farm structure surveys at the NUTS3 level (‘départements’) during the period 1970–2007. Using calculated Gini coefficients, we show that farm size inequality has not systematically increased in France. An...

The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between size and farm growth. The existing theories of the association between size and farm growth give mixed results by countries and over time. This paper pursues a twofold objective: on one hand, to test the validity of...

L'étude a pour objectif de mettre en évidence les stratégies de marque des entreprises agroalimentaires du Languedoc-Roussillon en fonction de leur profil, tout en étudiant l’évolution de ces choix stratégiques entre 1997 et 2009. Pour cela, nous nous référerons dans cet article aux...

S'appuyant sur un raccordement Réseau d'information comptable agricole-enquêtes fiscales, réalisé par l'INSEE en 1991, cet article étudie le revenu des ménages dans l'agriculture professionnelle et l'incidence de la pluriactivité sur le financement des exploitations. Les revenus agricoles...

Der demographische Wandel stellt für die operativeLogistik eine große Herausforderung dar. Zu der im Alter sinkendenkörperlichen Belastbarkeit der Logistikmitarbeiter kommen in Zeitender Wertschöpfungsorientierung neue Anforderungen von Seiten derUnternehmen auf die Mitarbeiter zu....

Pay-as-you-go pension programs can help to share risk amongst generations.While a wage-indexed pension program is best suited to share labor income risk,I show that the combination of stochastic labor income and stochastic populationgrowth may reduce the possibilities for intergenerational risk...

Die Einführung eines jeden auf dem Umlageverfahren basierenden Systems verursacht– bei unterstellter Alterung der Bevölkerung – eine intergenerative Umverteilungzu Gunsten der ersten Generationen und zu Lasten üungerer und nachwachsenderGenerationen. Am Beispiel der Einf¨uhrung der...

Presuming an ageing population, every introduction of a pay-as-you-go schemecauses intergenerational redistribution in favor of the first generations and to theburden of young and future generations. Using the concept of internal rates ofreturn we want to examine the extent to which the first...