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L'inégalité des chances sur le marché du travail urbain ouest-africain

Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

This paper aims at evaluating to what extent one’s position in the labour market is determined by his social background and what explains differences between seven West-African capital cities. Does the father’s position influence directly the occupational situation of his children through...

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Intergenerational Transmission of Self-Employed Status in the Informal Sector: A Constrained Choice or Better Income Prospects? Evidence from seven West-African Countries

Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

This paper aims at highlighting the debate on firm heterogeneity in the informal sector by testing whether entrepreneurial familial background impacts informal businesses outcomes in the West African context. In the USA, a literature aiming at understanding the high intergenerational correlation...

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Education and Labour Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan West Africa

Kuépié, Mathias; Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Roubaud, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of education on urban labour market participation and earnings in seven major West African cities. Our results show that although education does not always guard against unemployment, it does increase individual earnings in Abidjan, Bamako,...

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Allocation of Labor in Urban West Africa: Insights from the Pattern of Labor Supply and Skill Premiums

Dimova, Ralitza; Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Roubaud, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010

Using comparable data from five West African capitals, we assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrollment through the prism of allocation of labor and earnings effects of skills across the formal and informal sectors, and not working. We find that...

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Employment Vulnerability and Earnings in Urban West Africa

Bocquier, Philippe; Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Vescovo, Aude - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010

This article develops indicators of vulnerability in employment in seven economic capitals of West Africa and studies their links with individual incomes. Quantitative, distributional and qualitative analyses show that vulnerability compensating mechanism is mainly seen in the informal sector,...

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Post-Hofstede diversity/cultural studies: what contributions to accounting knowledge?

Wickramasinghe, Danture; Joannides, Vassili; Berland, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010

) critiqued their homogeneity and poor ability to enhance our understanding of accounting. Knowledge claims articulated, claims … conclusions and contributions to scientific knowledge. For their part, Harrison & McKinnon (1999) stressed that all these studies … later. This research purports to analyse the contributions of post-Hofstedian research to accounting knowledge. To this end …

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Quelle structure des connaissances dans la recherche française en comptabilité, contrôle et audit ? Une étude bibliométrique de la revue CCA sur la période 1995-2004

Chtioui, Tawhid; Soulerot, Marion - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

published in the CCA French review between 1995 and 2004. Citation and co-citation techniques are used to draw a knowledge …

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Constructing a research network: accounting knowledge in production

Berland, Nicolas; Joannides, Vassili - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

, addressing how accounting knowledge is established, advanced and extended. Design/methodology/approach – The research question is … controversies in which they engage to develop knowledge. Findings – The paper reveals that accounting knowledge is established … shows that knowledge advancement, establishment and development is more contingent on network breadth than on research …

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Actor-networks and the diffusion of management accounting innovations : a comparative study

Levant, Yves; Alcouffe, Simon; Berland, Nicolas - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

This research is concerned with the diffusion of management accounting innovations viewed as a process of actor-network building and translation. The aim is to better understand the nature of accounting change. Using Actor-Network Theory (ANT), we analyze two innovations that have had different...

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