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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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La surinformation, facteur de stress

Isaac, Henri; Kalika, Michel - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

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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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Experience Benefits and Firm Organization

Renault, Régis; Ma, Ching-to Albert; Alger, Ingela - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

A principal needs a worker for the production of a good. The worker can be hired as an internal agent, or an external agent under a contract. These two organizational modes correspond to in-house production and outsourcing, respectively. In each case, the agent earns experience benefits: future...

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Distinguishing Knowledge from Information. A Prerequisite for Elaborating KM Initiative Strategy

Grundstein, Michel - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

Although the technological approach of Knowledge Management (KM) is greatly shared, without awareness, when elaborating … KM initiative’s strategy, we can confuse the notions of information and knowledge, and disregard the importance of … individual’s tacit knowledge used in action. Therefore, to avoid misunderstanding during the strategic orientation phase of a …

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The Complementary Roles of Information Systems and Knowledge Management Systems: A Framework Based on Popper’s Three Worlds Theory

Guetat, Sana; Ben Dhaou Dakhli, Salem - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010

Knowledge is increasingly playing a key role in achieving organizational success in modern organizations notably in … leveraging core business competencies, accelerating innovation and time to market, improving cycle times and decision making … knowledge in modern organizations, knowledge management has emerged as a scientific discipline. Nevertheless, the dominant view …

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