Criticizing the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) on the basis of highly volatile asset prices is conceptually wrong as efficiency is about rationality and information, not about stability. Speculative bubbles are compatible with rational valuation, and hence with market efficiency. As rational...

[fre] Les usages du temps: cumuls d’activités et rythmes de vie . . Avoir des ressources culturelles élevées et habiter dans des grandes villes favorisent un cumul d’activités. Les hommes et les femmes les mieux dotés cumulent ainsi les activités professionnelles, sportives,...

[eng] Young Women and Work: What Is Inherited and What Is Passed On . Young women with any kinds of qualifications are more likely to find work and less likely to be unemployed or unoccupied. Among young working women, those with higher education qualifications are the best protected from...

The article deals with the implementation of equal opportunities and positive action in the field of work in France. After presenting a few characteristic trends of the evolution of the status of women on the labor market, the author presents the legal and policy framework of professional...

1. Introduction -- Section I the distribution of foodstuffs -- 2. Costa rica -- 3. Armenia -- 4. Mali -- 5. Zambia -- Section II the distribution of pharmaceuticals -- 6. Jamaica -- 7. Vietnam -- Section III the distribution of services: international money transfers and tv programmes -- 8....

Using a sample of 664 large, medium- and small-sized firms covering seven industries in Morocco, this article investigates whether the difference in their attitudes toward investment in human and physical capital explains their difference in terms of job creation. The lessons drawn from this...

Based on their perceptions, more than three quarters of Moroccan manufacturing firms have identified access to finance as one of the major constraints affecting their performance. However, compared to a number of emerging countries, Moroccan firms appear relatively undercapitalized and more...

Researchers’ enthusiasm for estimating industry oligopoly power in developing countries is often not matched with availability of data. Even when available, data are often incomplete, inconsistent, too aggregated, and almost always collected by government agencies for purposes different from...