Economic theory points to two main mechanisms of residential income segregation : (i) the sorting according to distance to the center, resulting from a differenciated trade-off of households between accessibility to employment and housing prices and (ii) the sorting between municipalities,...

The public housing sector provides housing units at below-market rents, potentially allowing its tenants to save for a downpayment more quickly than they would have otherwise. In this paper, we analyze the effect of a spell in public housing on age at first-time homeownership using the French...

The aim of this paper is to test for the influence of neighborhood deprivation on individual unemployment probability in the case of Lyon (France). We estimate a bivariate probit model of unemployment and location in a deprived neighborhood. Our identification strategy is twofold. First, we...

L'élaboration du programme de développement rural pour la période 2007-2013 passe par une phase préalable de diagnostic des espaces ruraux. Le travail retracé ici représente une contribution originale à la construction de cet état des lieux. L'étude est construite à l'échelle des...

[paper in French] How to evaluate the relevance of the French rural policy? When the question is to what extent the objectives of the policy are reached owing to public interventions, the method is relatively well known. However, when the question is to what extent these objectives are relevant,...

Ce rapport présente les résultats du projet de recherche intitulé : "Accès à l'emploi dans les territoires des politiques de la ville : un appariement entre emplois et populations". La recherche qui a été menée visait à proposer un panorama assez large de l'évolution des territoires de...

The public housing sector provides housing units at below-market rents, potentially allowing its tenants to save for a downpayment more quickly than they would have otherwise. In this paper, we analyze the e-ffect of a spell in public housing on age at first-time homeownership using the French...