large economies, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. The empirical results show that although the pure NGARCH …

-executive directors. Board restructuring is correlated to poor performance, but not for France. Neither existing blockholders nor … creditors play an active role in disciplining. Block purchases have a monitoring role in Belgium and Germany, but not in France …

This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany … spite of huge differences in the distribution of education in France and Germany, these countries prove surprisingly similar …

examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a … graduates face a higher risk of getting unemployed in Germany than in France. Concerning the reemployment prospects of the … unemployed, they are better in France than in West-Germany at all education levels, but particularly for the unemployed with a …

mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … characteristics appear to affect both the birth and the employment decisions in a different way in France and Germany. Some of the …