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Despite the increased strategic importance of environmental innovation on the one hand and corporate social responsibility on the other, there are still few studies that show firm voluntary measures create a primary determinant of environmental changes. First, we clarify the meaning of voluntary...
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Relationships between health and economic prosperity or economic growth are difficult to assess. The direction of the causality is often questioned and the subject of a vigorous debate. For some authors, diseases or poor health had contributed to poor growth performances especially in low-income...
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This article explores the main determinants of the hazard of recidivism among ex-prisoners. We use a nationally-representative sample of prisoners released in 1996-1997 in France, drawn from a 5-year follow-up survey run by the French correctional administration. We estimate semiparametric...
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The political constitution of markets is promoted by Montchrestien whereas, on the contrary, the absolute autonomy of the sphere of exchange is favoured by Cantillon. Yet, this article seeks to demonstrate that both authors participate in the emergence of a modern way of thinking about the...
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Les coordinations locales non marchandes ont-elles une incidence sur le développement économique ? Répondre à cette question implique de distinguer les mécanismes auxquels les coordinations entre agents renvoient. Les coordinations locales génèrent deux types d'externalités positives :...
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The role played by parental wealth in facilitating the life chances and living standards of offspring is a topic of growing interest in stratification research. The addition of household wealth to the parental resource portfolio opens new issues with respect to mechanisms in the transmission of...
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Nous évaluons l'impact d'un aménagement des conditions de travail sur le retour au travail après un cancer. En appliquant une méthode d'appariement, nous trouvons que, toutes choses égales par ailleurs, l'obtention d'un aménagement augmente fortement la probabilité de retour au travail et...
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Les politiques de soutien financier à la R&D se sont multipliées depuis les années 80 dans les pays de l'OCDE avec une utilisation croissante des mesures fiscales. Cependant, il existe assez peu d'études mesurant l'impact macroéconomique de ces mesures sur l'investissement privé en R&D....
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This paper presents the Paretian Watershed and the fundamental theorems of welfare economics. It distinguishes the British approach (à la Kaldor-Hicks) from the American approach (à la Bergson-Samuelson) to new welfare economics. It develops the more recent domains of happiness economics, the...
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Le corpus théorique qui propose la solution de la Banque Centrale indépendante, résulte des travaux menés dès le début des années soixante-dix autour d'une problématique toujours actuelle en théorie monétaire, celle de l'incohérence temporelle. Ce problème présente l'une des...
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