Using panel data from Argentina during the 1990’s, this paper concludes that, in Argentina, income ‘mobiles’ did change over time. Among the household variables with a structural relation with income dynamics, we find university education, protecting from income declines though not...

What does a real estate agent expect to get out of a mobile device? We chose a practical example to illustrate an otherwise dry topic: the necessity of adapting techniques to a new form of information utilization. We start with a reminder of some new configurations that must be taken into...

The present paper addresses the scientific reliability and investigates the deployment - actually, more a logical then a chronologic one - of the arguments - ethical, juridical and economical - adopted to sustain, assess and support the dissemination of the diversity policies within the...

This case study exploits matched firm–employee Tunisian data in order to underline the role played by within-firm human capital in worker remuneration. The estimated returns to human capital in wage equations remain unchanged when the dummies representing firm heterogeneity are replaced in the...

This paper investigates the determinants of the cash holdings of French firms over the period 1998- 2002, using the trade-off theory and the pecking order theory. We show that French firms increase their cash level when their activities are risky and the levels of their cash flow are high, and...

This paper presents the preliminary results of the study of the evolution of the SMEs in the information technology industry in France. This study was started during a research visit at the University Dauphine Paris, France, as a test model for a study involving SMEs from the information...

Many fiscal reforms in LDC’s have relied on the introduction of a presumptive tax. Aims were to simplify the tax system and to enhance the fiscal base by introducing previously informal enterprises. Theoretical qualities of positive incidence and of redistribution effects have been shown, but...