The purpose of this paper is to explain why low-wage workers with identical qualifications to higher-wage workers are more exposed to unemployment. Each worker is considered to belong to a social group (defined according to his/her gender, age, and nationality). We assume that workers experience...

This research focuses on second-generation female consumers' relationship to cosmetics. Cosmetics consumption carries individual, cultural, and social dimensions for second-generation immigrants. It enables them to individually manage their cultural identities. this research is grounded on 31...

The aim of this paper is the identification of structural shocks which affect the dynamics of sectoral inventories, through an analysis of the forecasting error variance decomposition. This identification is achieved using the American and French time series of aggregate production, sectoral...