This study aims to analyze the contribution of firm wage policies to the gender pay gap in Cameroon. A critical review of the literature developed for this purpose shows that this phenomenon is both compensatory and discriminatory. The empirical analysis of the phenomenon made use of data from...

The present study proposes to examine the fruitfulness of an econometric modeling of the determinants of poverty in Burkina Faso in 1994_95, in order to build a “poverty profile” which is not only founded on a decomposition of measurements of the latter according to specified sub_groups....

We use the European Community Household Panel Survey (ECHP) to investigate the determinants of self-employment. More precisely, we consider the influence of immediate social environments and social networks on the choice of self-employment. We conjecture that self-employment is correlated across...

Le financement des retraites ayant pour finalité de fournir une réponse à une réalité sociale par définition mouvante, ne peut faire l’objet que de solutions évolutives, sous peine de remises en cause de situations présentées comme faussement stables. D’où le questionnement : avec...

Vieillir, ce n’est pas seulement un problème biologique et propre à chaque individu, c’est aussi un problème économique et collectif. Alors que l’espérance de vie (en bonne santé) augmente grâce au progrès technique et médical, la période d’activité professionnelle pour une...

With the enlargements of the European Union in the East in 2004 and 2007, the regional economic disparities increased profoundly and an effort of solidarity between states was necessary. This paper proposes to identify between the explanatory factors at the origin of the uneven distribution of...

The theoretical framework of this thesis is the industrial economics applied to the analysis of technological innovation. Its main purpose is to assess the effects of competitiveness clusters policy on the incentives of firms to innovate. In particular, it aims to understand the informational...

In this paper, we analyze the issues of innovation clusters-based industrial policy through the economic issues of three industrial dynamics, i. e. R and D (or innovation), location of innovation activities and technology cooperation. It appears that the key elements that justify these new...