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Transitional Labour Markets, from theory to policy application. Can transitional labour markets contribute to a less traditional gender division of labour ?.

Leschke, Janine; Jepsen, Maria - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2009

Much of the gender inequality in the labour market is brought about by women's dual role as worker and (potential … first section discusses various gender-equality models which imply different ways of organising, for example, childcare …, parental leave and flexible working time. Sections two and three look at gender inequalities in labour market outcomes and …

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Linking Beliefs to Willingness to Compete.

Berlin, Noémi; Dargnies, Marie-Pierre - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2012

Men are known to have a higher taste for competition than women. This paper presents an experiment that analyses the different determinants of the choice to enter a competition : beliefs and the competition level. As far as entry in the competition is concerned, low-performing subjects adapt...

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Household division of labor : Is there any escape from traditional gender roles ?.

Rizavi, Sayyid Salman; Sofer, Catherine - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2010

female investment in career, and look into the possible effect on the gender division of labor, particularly the male share …

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The Evolution of a "Kantian Trait": Inferring from the Dictator Game

Planas, Lorenzo Cerda - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2015

The aim of this paper is twofold. Starting from the population dynamics literature, which usually finds the resulting distribution of a trait in a population, according to some parents' preferences, I answer the inverted question: Which preference function would yield into a given trait...

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Moving to Greener Societies: Moral Motivation and Green Behaviour.

Planas, Lorenzo Cerda - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2014

This paper intends to provide an alternative explanation of why societies behave differently from an environmental point of view. To do so, I use a Kantian moral approach at a microeconomic level. Under this premise, I show that two identical societies (according to income and political system)...

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Workers behavior and labor contract : an evolutionary approach.

Hiller, Victor - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2008

This article investigates the co-evolution of labor relationships and workers preferences. According to recent experimental economics findinggs on social preferences, the workforce is assumed to be heterogeneous. It is composed by both cooperative and non-cooperative workers. In addition, firms...

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How to improve pupils' literacy? A cost-effectiveness analysis of a French educational project.

Massoni, Sébastien; Vergnaud, Jean-Christophe - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2011

The Action Lecture program is an innovative teaching method run in some nursery and primary schools in Paris and designed to improve pupils' literacy. We report the results of an evaluation of this program. We describe the experimental protocol that was built to estimate the program's impact on...

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Does Competition Induce Hiring Equity?.

Berson, Clémence - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2012

second generation immigrants. Concerning gender, women are favored as cashiers. The impact of competition depends on the …

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Social preferences in the online laboratory: A randomized experiment.

Hergueux, Jérôme; Jacquemet, Nicolas - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2012

Internet is a very attractive technology for experiments implementation, both in order to reach more diverse and larger samples and as a field of economic research in its own right. This paper reports on an experiment performed both online and in the laboratory, designed so as to strengthen the...

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Insurance demand under ambiguity and conflict for extreme risks: Evidence from a large representative survey.

Dupont-Courtade, Théodora - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2012

This paper investigates how the general public behaves when confronted with low probability events and ambiguity in an insurance context. It reports the results of a questionnaire completed by a large representative sample of the French population that aims at separating attitudes toward risk,...

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