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Even in countries where there is a male-biased sex ratio, it is still possible for the marriage market to be balanced if men marry younger women and population is growing. We define a missing Brides Index to reflect the intensity of the possible imbalance at steady state, taking into account the...
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The employment of the seniors is one of the stakes of the next years in our developed companies. Indeed those will be more numerous, at the same time for demographic reasons and because of the retreat of the retirement age (in particular for the women). Thus, the companies will be more often...
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from domestic work in the strict sense, around the assumption of responsibility of the children by the family ? How this …
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In France over the last fifteen years two important reforms in the basic pension systems (1993 and 2003) were made and numerous measures concerning the legal supplementary benefits systems were put into effect. Contrary to other countries, the role of the pay-as-you-go system as the main pension...
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fewer children than a woman in a monogamous relationship as long as the preference for reproduction relative to consumption … monogamous or polygynous relationship, produces more children as polygyny becomes more prevalent in her neighborhood. We …
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We propose a search-matching model of the marriage market that extends Shimer and Smith (2000) to allow for labor supply. We characterize the steady-state equilibrium when exogenous divorce is the only source of risk. The estimated matching probabilities that can be derived from the steady-state...
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impact. The women's education negatively influences fertility in the sense that the least educated women have more children …
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This article presents a conceptual approach related to the European flexicurity debate, the Transitional Labour Market (TLM) theory and its main assumptions. The aim is to bring this analytic framework into the discussion and to clarify some central aspects by defining the key concepts of...
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This contribution aims at presenting a critical and syntetic overview of the researches done, since 1995, under the aegis of the "Transitional Labour Markets" current. In its first part, the survey focuses on the positive theoretical bases of this current. They come from diverse theories of the...
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years old), that is when families of two and more than two children have the same incentive to take a paid parental leave …In France, having more than two children has a causal negative impact on mothers' labour supply. The question addressed … children on mothers' participation. Conversely, some family policies could increase this effect by inciting mothers to have an …
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