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...

French Abstract: L'article effectue un survol de la littérature analysant les effets des impôts sur le revenu, sur l'offre de travail des femmes mariées. Les impôts introduisent des non-linéarités et des non-convexités dans l'ensemble budgétaire. Le modèle de base a bénéficié de...

Abstract This paper provides a theoretical and empirical survey on the link between employment and growth in sub-Saharan Africa countries. Trough this study we shed the light on the majors works that have been done on the subject concerning sub-Saharan Africa and emphasize some stylized facts...

This study consists of examining the effects of inflation on unemployment in Cameroon. Beginning from the hypothesis which says inflation has a negative effect on unemployment, the Philips curve model was chosen to verify this hypothesis. From the results of this study, the anticipation errors...

This article assesses the impact of the first payroll tax reductions implemented in France in the 90s on the wage dynamics of low-income employees. Since these policies represent a net transfer from the State to the employer/employee match, they are unlikely to lead to wage reductions for...