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Social Mobility and Colonial Legacy in Five African Countries

Bossuroy, Thomas; Cogneau, Denis - DIAL - 2008

How fluid are African societies? This paper uses wide-sample nationally representative surveys to set down the first comparative measurement of the extent and features of the social mobility of men in five countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Intergenerational as well as intra-generational mobility...

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Agricultural surplus, division of labour and the emergence of cities, a spatial general equilibrium model

Spielvogel, Gilles - DIAL - 2003

(english) In this paper, we expose the economic conditions of cities emergence in a spatial general equilibrium framework. The presence of increasing returns based on the division of labour, transport costs and the possible existence of an agricultural surplus are enough to generate different...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181789

Effets des sur-rémunérations des agents des administrations sur l’économie de la Réunion

Cogneau, Denis; Dumont, Jean-Christophe - DIAL - 2000

This paper proposes a study of the global impact of the level of wages paid to civil servants in the “Ile de la Réunion”, a French department located in the Indian Ocean, using historical data and a computable general equilibrium model. The wage bonuses paid to civil servants in French...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196385

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 - DIAL - 2011

Social reproduction is the highest for self-employed as shown by an extensive literature from developed and developing countries. Very few studies however document the reason for this high intergenerational correlation of the self-employed status. The rare studies that have been done concern the...

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Inequality of opportunity on the urban labour market in West Africa

Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - DIAL - 2010

different. In the first case, reducing inequality of opportunities means improving labour markets efficiency and in the second …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740203

Migrant network and immigrants’ occupational mismatch

Chort, Isabelle - DIAL - 2013

(english) This paper defines new measures of horizontal and vertical mismatch based on the discrepancies between the skill content of occupations in which individuals have a self-assessed productive advantage and that of their actual job. Based on these definitions, this paper provides the first...

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Inequalities and equity in Africa

Cogneau, Denis; Bossuroy, Thomas; Vreyer, Philippe De; … - DIAL - 2006

time inequality of opportunity in Africa, aside inequality of resources and of living standards. We confirm the prevalence … of high levels of inequality among the region’s countries. Yet we also find considerable differences in the structures of … this inequality. Furthermore, intergenerational educational and occupational mobility and the equality of opportunity for …

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Earnings inequalities and educational mobility in Brazil over two decades

Cogneau, Denis; Gignoux, Jérémie - DIAL - 2005

This paper studies the impact of changes in educational opportunities on various definitions of labour market inequalities in Brazil over two decades (1976-96). Using four editions of the nationally representative PNAD survey, we analyze the evolution of overall inequalities and inequalities of...

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L’évolution de la mobilité scolaire intergénérationnelle au Pérou depuis un siècle

Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - DIAL - 2003

(English) Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the education system in Peru has known a considerable development. This suggests that in all probabilities opportunities for study should be on a more equal basis. In the present article, I set out to discover whether all social groups have...

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Perception de l’inégalité des chances et mobilités objective et subjective:une analyse à partir d’entretiens qualitatifs auprès de Liméniens

Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - DIAL - 2005

on social justice; as according to several authors, the perception of inequality of opportunity strongly determines the … interviewees assess their mobility using a monetary criterion. In the third part, the perception of inequality of opportunity is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094515