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Irreversibility of time, reversibility of choices ? The Life-Course foundations of the transitional labour markets approach

Anxo, Dominique; Erhel, Christine - HAL - 2006

The article analyses the potential links between the life course approach and the Transitional Labour Market (TLM) perspective. It provides some empirical evidence of the role played by age and gender in individuals' situation on the labour market, as well as of the heterogeneity in course...

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Human capital as a risky asset and the effect of uncertainty on the decision to invest

Hanchane, Saïd; Lioui, A.; Touahri, David - HAL - 2006

In this paper, we analyse the human capital accumulation process over the life cycle of individuals under uncertainty. To do so, we develop a continuous time dynamic programming model which takes into account several sources of uncertainty, concerning the human capital accumulation process and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899522

Human capital accumulation over the life cycle under multiple sources of uncertainty

Hanchane, Saïd; Touahri, David - HAL - 2004

In this paper, we analyse the human capital accumulation process over the life cycle of individuals under the hypothesis of earnings uncertainty. To do so, we develop a continuous time dynamic programming model which takes into account several sources of uncertainty, concerning the human capital...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618141

Human Capital over the Life Cycle

Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2006

Human Capital over the Life Cycle: A European Perspective identifies the problem of human capital creation as one of the fundamental issues in the development of knowledge-based economies.

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The distortionary effect of health insurance on health demand

Fombaron, Nathalie; Milcent, Carine - HAL - 2007

This paper presents a general framework for modeling the impact of insurance on healthcare demand extending some of the results of the two-risk model of Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976), but including the latter as a special case. Rothschild and Stiglitz's approach assumes equivalence between the...

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Equity in health care finance and delivery: what about Africa ?

Cissé, Boubou; Luchini, Stephane; Moatti, Jean-Paul - HAL - 2006

This paper applies concentration curves and indices, that have been previously used to analyze progressivity in health … care finance and horizontal equity in health care delivery in developed countries, to a 1998-1999 household survey about … health care expenditures and utilization carried out in four francophone West African capitals (Abidjan, Bamako, Conakry and …

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Longevity, Pollution and Growth

Raffin, Natacha; Seegmuller, Thomas - HAL - 2012

and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental … poverty trap. We examine changes in public policies: increasing public intervention on health or environmental maintenance …

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The impact of health events on individual labor market histories : the message from difference in differences with exact matching

Duguet, Emmanuel; Clainche, Christine Le - HAL - 2012

We studied the effect of health events (accidents and chronic diseases) on the occupation probabilities at the … matching estimators, we found that health events have a strong impact on individual labor market histories. The workers … health events. …

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Efficiency in Saving Infant Lives: the Influence of Water and Sanitation Coverage

Ferro, Gustavo; Romero, Carlos A.; Castiglione, Ignacio - HAL - 2011

reconciled with equity (in the sense that the winners of the coverage increases and the health improvements are the poorer). …

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Evidence on the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living

Cuffe, Harold E.; Harbaugh, William T.; Lindo, Jason M.; … - HAL - 2011

We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and individual fixed effects models to measure the impact of the...

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