The deployment of urban logistics solutions is one of the main pending questions in the field of urban goods transport research and practice. Indeed, although several solutions and projects have been tested in the last years, only few of them reach an operational phase and remain viable in time....

Dans cet article, nous nous proposons d'identifier les différents types d'entreprises (entreprises pérennes, entreprises apparues ou disparues) qui contribuent à la croissance de la productivité du travail et de la productivité globale des facteurs (PGF) dans l'industrie marocaine. Nous...

Internal labour migration has become an important part of the process of China's industrialization and urbanisation in the 2000s. Using micro data for the year 2007, this chapter attempts to contribute to a better understanding of the motives of and the constraints to labour mobility in China....

This paper aims to provide the first evidence concerning the relationship between time and risk preferences and illegal migration in an African context. Based upon our theoretical model and using a unique data set on potential migrants collected in urban Senegal, we evaluate a measure of time...

This paper briefly presents the life of Abram Bergson (Burk). It summarizes its most important contributions to economic theory : microeconomics, welfare economics, comparative economics and sovietology. The role of value judgments in the construction of social indexes or in the comparison of...

The representation of the individual in economics as a rational homo oeconomicus had been seriously questioned by the development of behavioural economics. Some authors nevertheless argue that economists do not need to produce complex models of human behaviour, since such investigation does not...

We analyze sunspot-driven fluctuations in the standard 2-sector RBC model with moderate increasing returns to scale. We provide a detailed theoretical analysis enabling us to derive relevant bifurcation loci and to characterize the steady-state local stability properties as a function of various...

Cette expertise a pour but d'offrir une vision partagée de l'évolution du nœud ferroviaire lyonnais : options premières, problèmes posés, orientations de long terme et planification des actions engager a court et moyen termes. Son objectif est d'éclairer les problèmes techniques,...

This paper studies entrepreneurs' objectives when starting a business and the impact of entrepreneurial and firm characteristics on these objectives. Entrepreneurship involves two behaviors that lead to define two types of entrepreneurs: those who start businesses to create and secure their...

The aim of this study is to evaluate hiring discrimination against young people in the Ile-de-France region on three different grounds: the reputation of the area they live in, their gender and their ethnic origin (French or Moroccan). The study is based on experimental testing data using a...