This paper examines whether dynamic professional contexts in manufacturing are associated with specific age-training profiles. During the 1990s, a comparative disadvantage of blue collar workers and clerks aged between 50 and 59 with regards to training in computer skills has been observed,...

We know (e.g. Noussair et alii [2004]) that consumers devalue first-generation GM food. Here, using a framed field experiment method, we reveal consumer?s willingness to pay for various second-generation GM apples, defined as differentiated products containing an innovative attribute, desirable...

Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We develop a structural approach to evaluate the impact of the reform on the exit rate to employment and on earnings. A job-search model is built and then estimated on the basis of a sample...