This proposal involves the establishment of ‘welfare accounts’ for every person in a country. There are four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...

This paper explores the optimal design of subsidies for hiring unemployed workers (‘employment vouchers’ for short) in the context of a simple macroeconomic model of the labour market. Focusing on the short-term and long-term effects of the vouchers on employment and unemployment, the...

The paper explores the employment implications of allowing people the opportunity of using a portion of their incapacity benefits to provide employment vouchers for employers that hire them. The analysis indicates that introducing this policy could increase employment, raise the incomes of...

This paper develops a dynamic Heckscher Ohlin Samuelson model with sector-specific human capital and overlapping generations to characterize the dynamics and welfare implications of gradual labor market adjustment to trade. Our model is tractable enough to yield sharp analytic results, that...

This paper discusses how employment vouchers should depend on age in a simple overlapping generations model in which workers are either young or old. We find that young workers should receive higher vouchers as displacement of the old rises and as the deadweight loss from providing vouchers to...

Cette étude teste l'hypothèse selon laquelle les conditions d'accès aux marchés sont suffisamment incitatives pour les transformations techniques de l'agriculture vivrière concernant l'igname au Cameroun. Elle mobilise une démarche d'analyse de filière dans un contexte de sources...

La production de bananes dans les Antilles est de manière croissante interpellée (insularité, protection de la biodiversité, ressources en eau, multifonctionnalité de l'agriculture, crise du chlordécone) dans sa capacité à réduire l'utilisation de produits phytopharmaceutiques. En...

La croissance urbaine en Afrique a entraîné une augmentation de la demande de consommation pour les fruits et légumes, de nombreuses modifications des systèmes de production périurbains et une diversification des revenus des populations rurales. Dans la zone péri-urbaine de Yaoundé, les...