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developed countries for its impact on employment, wages and the welfare state, is not an issue at stake in Thailand for the … leads us to define what we mean exactly by “knowledge” (part 1). We will then turn to the consequences on employment and …
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strategy. This paper evaluates the e®ect of this policy on employment and also on output and welfare. We construct an … of both wages and productivity are endogenous. We estimate this model using French data. Numerical simulations show that … wage when they are spread over a large range of wages in order to avoid specialization in low productivity jobs. …
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This paper studies the effect of changes in the employment rate on labour productivity per hour, taking an empirical … changes in the employment rate structure from those of changes in the qualification structure. With the results obtained, we … practice with respect to employment rate structure and qualification level. It appears that the two effects are more or less of …
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In this paper, we expose the results of a voting experiment realised in 2007, during the French Presidential election. This experiment aimed at confronting the Single Transferable vote (SVT) procedure to two criteria : simplicity and the selection of a Condorcet-winner. Building on our electoral...
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Although economics has long been considered as a non-experimental science, the development of experimental economics and behavioral economics is amazingly rapid and affects most fields of research. This paper first attempts at defining the main contributions of experiments to economics. It also...
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-country/time-series evidence that, using product market regulation as an instrument, suggests that on average at least 8% of the gender employment …
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equally discriminated against when compared to French applicants. This indicates that racial discrimination in employment is …
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The extent of racial discrimination in the labor market is now clearly identified, but its nature largely remains an open question. This paper reports results from an experiment in which fabricated resumes are sent to help-wanted advertisements in Chicago newpapers. We use three groups of...
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The aim of this paper is to compare in an empirical way the male/female wage gap differential between the following two countries : France, an industrialized country where the disparities between sexes are outstandingly small, and Japan, where they are particularly large. It is also proposed to...
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Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of … disorders. By contrast, non-employment and retirement are generally worse for mental health than employment, and overemployment … has a negative effect on health. These findings stress the importance of employment and of adequate working conditions for …
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