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A Contribution to the Schumpeterian Growth Theory and Empirics

Ertur, Cem; Koch, Wilfried - HAL - 2008

Cet article propose un cadre théorique et méthodologique unifie caractérisé par la priseen compte explicite des intéractions technologiques dans la modélisation des processus decroissance en adoptant une perspective Schumpétérienne. L'interdépendance globale impliquée par les...

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Religion and Fertility : The French Connection

Baudin, Thomas - HAL - 2008

The dataset "Enqute Mode de Vie des Franais" is the first opportunity to measure the impact of religion and religiosity on individual fertility behaviors in France. Indeed, the French laws make it very difficult to collect data on the individual's religious variables. With Poisson regressions, I...

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Workers behavior and labor contract : an evolutionary approach

Hiller, Victor - HAL - 2008

This article investigates the co-evolution of labor relationships and workers preferences. According to recent experimental economics findinggs on social preferences, the workforce is assumed to be heterogeneous. It is composed by both cooperative and non-cooperative workers. In addition, firms...

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Work organization and preferences dynamics

Hiller, Victor - HAL - 2007

We present a model with intergenerational transmission of preferences providing a joint explanation of preference evolution and of work organization changes in a society. We focus on the preference for autonomy, defined as an individual's degree of initiative and the value they attach to self...

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Climate policies deserve a negative discount rate

Fleurbaey, Marc; Zuber, Stéphane - HAL - 2012

We defend a methodology of discounting, for the evaluation of the long-term effects of climate policies, which relies on a social welfare objective, against the view that the market rate of return should be used for that purpose. We also show that in the long run, the discount rate for such...

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The Worst-Case Scenario and Discounting the Very Long Term

Fall, El Hadji - HAL - 2006

We propose an ethical viewpoint based on the possibility of the realization of the worst-case scenario in order to reduce future generations risks in terms of discounting. Applied to the question of conservation of a renewable resource, we show that an economy, where the social planner takes...

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Double Dividend with Involuntary Unemployment: Efficiency and Intergenerational Equity

Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Fodha, Mouez - HAL - 2005

This paper analyzes the double dividend and distributional issues within an overlapping generations models framework with involuntary unemployment. We characterize the necessary conditions for the obtention of a double dividend when the revenue of the environmental tax is recycled by a variation...

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A non-dictatorial criterion for optimal growth models

Kama, Alain Ayong Le; Van, Cuong Le; Schubert, Katheline - HAL - 2008

axioms that capture the idea of sustainable growth : non-dictatorship of the present and non-dictatorship of the future, and … allow to explicity characterize optimal growth paths with optimal control techniques. Our aim is less general than … Chichilnisky's and Basu and Mitra's : we want to have a non-dictatorial criterion for optimal growth models. We restrict ourselves …

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Efficiency and Acceptability of Climate Policies: Race Against the Lock-ins

Rozenberg, Julie; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien; Stéphane, Hallegatte - HAL - 2013

Policymakers have good reasons to prefer capital-based policies - such as CAFE standards or feebates programs - over a carbon price. A carbon price minimizes the discounted cost of a climate policy, but may result in existing capital being under-utilized or scrapped before its scheduled...

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Immigration, growth and unemployment: Panel VAR evidence from OECD countries

BOUBTANE, Ekrame; COULIBALY, Dramane; Rault, C. - HAL - 2013

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ a panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...

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