The article analyses the potential links between the life course approach and the Transitional Labour Market (TLM) perspective. It provides some empirical evidence of the role played by age and gender in individuals' situation on the labour market, as well as of the heterogeneity in course...

This paper presents a characterization of weak risk aversion in terms of preference for sure diversification. Similarly, we show that strong risk aversion can be characterized by weakening preference for diversification, as introduced by Dekel [11], in what we name preference for strong...

We consider an aggregative consumption economy, where there are a market for commodities and four financial markets : for bonds, deposits, credits and a speculative asset. The decision analytic ideas of decentralization and price aggregation are applied to discuss the existence of equilibrium.

We consider discrete time Markov chains on general state space. It is shown that a certain property referred to here as nondecomposability is equivalent to irreducibility and that a Markov chain with invariant distribution is irreducible if and only if the invariant distribution is unique and...

This article proposes and studies a link between statistics and the theory of Dirichlet forms used to compute errors. The error calculus based on Dirichlet forms is an extension of classical Gauss' approach to error propagation. The aim of this paper is to derive error structures from...