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This paper attempts to understand why children often delay school enrolment despite the prediction of human capital theory that schooling should begin at the earliest possible age. We explore different explanations of delayed enrolment but focus particularly on the effect of child health on the...
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This study attempts to extend reflections on gender disparities in children's time allocation based on household survey data in Mali. We test the gender disparities in schooling and child labor using the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The objective is to identify the contributions of unobservable...
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A microsimulation of demographic behaviours using the 1997 Insee Survey about Young People and Job Histories (Robert-Bobée 2001) leads to the following results: if demographic behaviours remain the same as the ones observed in 1995-1996, completed fertility may decrease to less than 2 children...
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This paper presents a new modelling of demographic events in the microsimulation model Destinie: union formations, union disruptions and births. The previous modelling was based on the 1997 Insee Survey on Young People and Job Histories, whose sample was of limited size (20 000 persons aged 19...
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migration probabilities. By considering migration’s distance of young workers, between the local labor markets at the end of …
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This paper presents a theoretical discussion and an empirical investigation of the impact of distance on the spatial … how distance impacts fob prices. Assuming additive or iceberg transport costs might imply opposite predictions concerning …) predicting either a nil or a negative impact of distance on prices at the firm level. It also questions the use of iceberg …
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Dans un environnement devenu global, il n’est plus possible de structurer l’environnement de l’entreprise qui devient de plus en plus complexe. Le concept de territoire propose un outil d’aide à la décision qui permet aux décideurs de structurer non pas l’environnement de...
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La question de la durabilité intervient aujourd'hui de manière récurrente dans les discours sur l'avenir des systèmes de transport, notamment lorsqu'il s'agit des déplacements de personnes ou de marchandises en ville. Dans ce contexte, nous proposons d'élaborer une série d'indicateurs qui...
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notions de distance et de proximité. La grille de lecture adoptée dans ce travail permet d'explorer la complexité de ce … la proximité et de la distance que l'approche spatiale des problématiques organisationnelles nous invite à adopter. …
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Dans un contexte de regain des modes alternatifs à la voiture particulière à l'échelle intra-urbaine, comment les émissions de CO2 liées aux déplacements quotidiens évoluent-elles sur la période récente ? Les dernières enquêtes déplacements locales semblent indiquer une...
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