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This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non-monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by building a...
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Les professionnels de la politique de la ville, de par leur implication dans l'action publique locale, ont du faire face à un besoin d'informations nouvelles les conduisant à observer différemment afin de révéler "l'invisible". L'inadéquation des statistiques existantes et la nécessité...
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We empirically investigate the dynamic interactions between sovereign ratings and the macroeconomic environment. We use a Panel VAR on annual data for European countries from 1986-2010. Our results provide evidence for a significant two-way interaction between the macroeconomic environment and...
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Ce 3ème rapport intermédiaire analyse les principaux traits de la mobilité des jeunes, à partir de l'enquête ménages déplacements (EMD) lyonnaise de 2005-2006 et étudie les effets sur la mobilité des caractéristiques socio-économiques et d'autres facteurs, comme la localisation...
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We build a simple model of self-selection into migration and immigration policy determination. We first show that the effect of any immigration policy can be decomposed into a size and a composition effect. We then explore how the optimal policy may change once the latter effect is considered.
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In this paper we consider conditionally independent processes with respect to some dynamic factor. We derive some mixing properties for random processes when conditioning is given with respect to unbounded memory of the factor. Our work is motivated by some real examples related to risk theory.
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We examine the empirical relationship between immigration and crime across Italian provinces during the period 1990-2003. Drawing on police administrative records, we first document that the size of the immigrant population is positively correlated with the incidence of property crimes and with...
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Cet article étudie dans quelle mesure la concurrence entre les banques peut affecter leur efficience au sein de l'UEMOA. Théoriquement, l'effet net de la concurrence bancaire sur l'efficience est indéterminée, en particulier dans le cas des pays en développement. D'une part, la concurrence...
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In the wake of the global change of a new accumulation regime in major capitalist economies, the opening up and liberalisation process of emerging economies from the 1980s has provoked great expectations that resulted in recurrent disappointing crises. Studied as a stylized fact, the Turkish...
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Ce 4ème rapport traite des effets du niveau socio-économique du lieu de résidence sur le risque d'accidents routiers avant 25 ans, et tout particulièrement chez les 14-17 ans. Les analyses ont été menées essentiellement par Idlir Licaj dans le cadre de sa thèse en épidémiologie, en...
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