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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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Trade, technology and labour markets : empirical controversies in the light of the Jones model

Pflüger, Michael - 2001

The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD area since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" or "globalisation" and technological progress....

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Trade, labor market rigidities, and government-financed technological change

Koeniger, Winfried - 2001

commodity prices, openness induces the government to subsidize technological innovation in the developed country because …

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Information technology and the knowledge elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …

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Returns to education and wage equations

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2001

education in the wage equation. We use a meta-analysis of results for Portugal to show, empirically, that this is the case. The …

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Unemployment duration : competing and defective risks

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001

states, namely, inactivity and employment. The major innovation is our recognition of defective risks. We first use a …

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