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Health, Work and Working Conditions: A Review of the European Economic Literature

Barnay, Thomas - HAL - 2014

, researchers control endogeneity skews (e.g., reverse causality, omitted variables) when conducting empirical analysis. With these …

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Are public transport improvements endogenous with respect to employment and income location in a city?

Bacares, Carlos Augusto Olarte - HAL - 2014

to infer causality of improvement of public transport. The size of companies, defined by the number of jobs they offer … largely defined by the level of improvement to urban public transport in each zone of the city but the causality relationship … seams to have a causality relationship with the income of inhabitants in each zone and the number of jobs, and this changes …

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A Behavioral Definition of States of the World

Vergopoulos, Vassili - HAL - 2014

This paper elaborates an axiomatic treatment of the Subjective Expected Utility (SEU) model that dispenses with the assumption of an exogenous state space. Within a state-free description of uncertainty and alternatives, axioms for preferences are formulated and shown to characterize the...

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Oil Price and the Dollar

Coudert, Virginie; Mignon, Valérie; Penot, Alexis - HAL - 2008

exchange rate, expressed in real terms. To this end, weproceed to a cointegration and causality study between the two variables …. Our results indicate that causality runs from oil prices to the exchange rate and that the relationship between the two …

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Trade and productivity: self-selection or learning-by-exporting in India

Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim - HAL - 2012

Recent literature tried to explain the Indian growth miracle in different ways, ranging from trade liberalization to industrial reforms. Using data on Indian manufacturing firms, this paper analyzes the relationship between firm's productivity and export market participation during 1991-2004....

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Physicians' Multitasking and Incentives: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Dumont, Etienne; Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; … - HAL - 2008

We analyse how physicians respond to contractual changes and incentives within a multitasking environment. In 1999 the Quebec government (Canada) introduced an optional mixed compensation system, combining a xed per diem with a partial (relative to the traditional fee-for-service system) fee for...

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Migrant wages, remittances and recipient labour supply in a moral hazard model

Naiditch, Claire; Vranceanu, Radu - HAL - 2009

This paper analyzes the interaction between migrants income and remittances and between remittancesand the labor supply of residents. The model is cast as a two-period game with imperfect informationabout the residents' real economic situation. Residents subject to a good economic situation may...

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Fair Retirement Under Risky Lifetime

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - HAL - 2013

A premature death unexpectedly brings a life and a career to their end, leading to substantial welfare losses. We study the retirement decision in an economy with risky lifetime, and compare the laissez-faire with egalitarian social optima. We consider two social objectives: (1) the maximin on...

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Household Production in a Collective Model: Some New Results

Rapoport, Benoit; Sofer, Catherine; Solaz, Anne - HAL - 2011

Household models estimated on labour supplies alone generally assume non-market time to be pure leisure. Previous work on collective household decision-making is extended here by taking domestic work into account in the Chiappori et al.'s (2002) model. Derivatives of the household "sharing rule"...

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A Collective Model of Female Labor Supply : Do Distribution Factors Matter in the Egyptian Case ?

Hendy, Rana; Sofer, Catherine - HAL - 2010

This paper examines the intrahousehold ressource allocation in Egyptian married couples and its impact on females labor supply. Using data from the Egyptian Labor market and Panel Survey of 2006, we estimate a discrete-choice model for female labor supply within a collective framework. The...

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