The aim of this paper is to highlight the individual characteristics that affect the duration of obtaining housing. The data used are from the housing survey carried out by Insee (Paris, 2006). The results show that family and social criteria are not the only criteria used by social landlords in...

This research is a study of the differences in duration of waiting time between European and non-European households to obtain social housing, drawing on the housing survey carried out by the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE, Paris, 2006). The idea here is to...

This article studies the relation between the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and the estimated coefficient of a dummy variable for a linear regression. We calculate the unexplained part of the decomposition from the estimated coefficient of the dummy variable. More precisely, if the exogenous...

Purpose: This paper is the first of its kind to look at first-year undergraduates in France. The purpose of this paper is to measure the impact of holding down a job on the probability of students dropping out of higher education or passing their first year. Design/methodology/approach: Given...

[fre] Peut-on encore occuper des emplois qualifiés après un CAP ou un BEP? . . Les diplômes de niveau V (CAP, BEP, etc.) permettent moins que par le passé d'accéder à des emplois d'ouvriers ou d'employés qualifiés. Cette évolution conduit à s'interroger sur les facteurs qui...

This paper presents a model for panel data, where regressors may vary across time, across individuals, or both. Some of the regressors are assumed to be endogenous. The objective is here to extend estimation methods for models with a single random effect to the two-effects case. The properties...