The paper focuses on the effects of formal and informal on-the-job training on wages and promotions for men and women. For that purpose, we use the 1999-2000 Canadian Worplace and Employee Survey (WES). Using a simulated maximum likelihood, we estimate a recursive trivariate probit that...

Using a model of bivariate decision under risk of disease, with separates the financial losses from the health losses, we analyse the curative demand for healthcare and the determinants of overconsumption care problem. We also study the demand for self-protection and the demand for...

The main purpose of this paper is to study the economics of interchange fee in payment card association. The different arrangements for interchange fees and the nosurcharge rule lower the level of competition intensity that would otherwise have occurred and push interchange fees up. In many...

Dans la plupart des modèles de recherche, Le taux d'actualisation est un facteur important conditionnant la prise de décisions telles que le choix du salaire de réserve ou l'intensité de la recherche d’emploi. Les individus ayant une forte préférence pour le présent ne cherchent pas...

The objective of this paper is to provide microeconomic evidence for the so called “Oswald’s hypothesis”, which is whether homeownership results in negative outcomes in the labour market. To estimate this effect we use two data base, comparing results from British Household Permanent...

The transferability of cost evaluation results is studied using Principal Component Analysis and Euclidean distances. The method allows to determine whether the transferability of the results across countries is low, medium or high. The use of these two validated tools for measuring result...

This paper studies the choice of the exchange rate regime in emerging and developing countries. The literature on exchange rate regimes is often based either on theoretical models or on empirical analysis. Our paper presents a different perspective by developing a theoretical model which is...

Le taux de préférence pour le présent est un facteur important qui conditionne la durée des épisodes de chômage. Les transitions du chômage sont analysées par l’estimation d’un modèle à hasard proportionnel à temps discret avec trois sorties à risques concurrents : contrat à...

Cet article analyse conjointement la stratification du marché du travail urbain 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...

Monetary conditions and economic activity in the euro area. With a VAR model, we show that the economies of the euro area are strongly dependent on the monetary conditions (short term interest rate, exchange rate). In the long-run, the industrial activity of the area enters in a co-integrating...