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Cet article analyse conjointement la stratification du marché du travail par type d’entreprise et la discrimination à l’égard des femmes en Chine urbaine pour l’année 1995, à l’aide d’une extension des méthodes de décomposition de type Oaxaca-Blinder. Nous montrons que les deux...
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This paper investigates the current state of growth accounting in China. The growing empirical literature on Chinese economic growth is based on several stylised facts which stress high but erratic long-term economic growth, strong accumulation of capital and rapid population growth. From these...
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This paper systematises the method initiated by Burtless (1999) and provides a general framework for decomposing inequality by factor components, which has the double advantage over usual decomposition procedures to allow for a decomposition of income distribution changes and to distinguish...
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This paper measures the evolution of total factor productivity (TFP) and its components in Chinese provinces for the period of 1992-99. It shows that during this period, TFP, efficiency and technology have progressed on average 3.9%, 1.6% and 2.3% annually, respectively. Then it evaluates the...
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The economic transition in post-communist countries generated a new phenomenon: open unemployment. Since the beginning of the reforms, the official unemployment rates have been very high in the CEECs (Central and Eastern European Countries), compared to the NIS (New Independent States from the...
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De 1980 à 2002, l’industrie française a perdu 1 500 000 emplois. La croissance des importations en provenance des pays émergents dans les secteurs ayant perdu le plus d’emplois suggère que les délocalisations et le commerce avec ces pays pourraient en être responsables. Dans le même...
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Le cours parallèle de la naira a chuté peu de temps après la dévaluation du franc CFA en 1994. On construit un modèle théorique simple montrant comment ces deux événements sont probablement reliés, et on présente un test économétrique allant dans ce sens.
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This paper gives a conceptual overview of the openness and vulnerability, sharing which in both cases respectively depends on economic policy and on structural factors, independent from policy. It focuses on openness policy, proposed to be measured by the residual of an openness function...
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Les pays d’Afrique subsaharienne sont engagés dans des politiques de libéralisation commerciale. Afin de préserver, voire de renforcer leur niveau de ressources publiques, ces pays mettent actuellement en œuvre des politiques de transition fiscale qui ont pour objectif de substituer des...
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The aim of this paper is to analyze the determinants of public health expenditure in developing countries. This is done through an econometric analysis of panel data for 61 countries. A special interest is devoted to the role of external financial constraints, on corruption and on two aspects of...
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