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La rationalité du choix passionnel : En quête de l'héritage de David Hume

Lapidus, André - HAL - 2000

The question of choice, in Hume's works, lies within the more general framework of the theory of passions. These lead towards desire, aversion and volition, and require reason, as a cognitive faculty, in order to build the set of objects on which our preferences are defined, and to determine its...

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Economic Theory and Electrical public Utilities Organization in the first part of the twentieth century: French and US Experiences

Marty, Frédéric - HAL - 2008

The purpose of the paper is to highlight the role of economists in the institutional building of the electric systems in the first part of the twentieth century. It aims at showing how the organization of electricity sector and its regulation were largely the fruits of the economists' works not...

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Disagreement-Based Trading and Speculation: Implications for Financial Regulation and Economic Theory

Biondi, Yuri - HAL - 2011

Lynn Stout's paper develops an insightful legal-economic analysis of speculative trading. From one hand, the paper discusses the legal-economic framework of speculation and its recent transformation, making reference to the case of derivatives markets crash (and related financial crisis) of...

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Estimating gender differences in access to jobs: females trapped at the bottom of the ladder

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - HAL - 2009

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...

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Migrations et discriminations professionnelles dans la province du Guangdong

Batisse, Cécile; Zhu, Nong - HAL - 2011

different characteristics: personal, temporal (i.e. the course of employment mobility through time) and spatial (i.e. the role …

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Finance and the rise in inequalities in France

Godechot, Olivier - HAL - 2011

Based on the DADS, a very detailed French database on wages, we show that wage inequalities started to increase in … the tremendous increase in top financial wages. …

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Inter-firm dependency and employment inequalities : Theoretical hypotheses and empirical tests

Perraudin, Corinne; Petit, Héloïse; Thèvenot, Nadine; … - HAL - 2009

' employment management practices. We show, firstly, that the use of subcontracting creates a chain of inter-firm economic …

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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs

Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - HAL - 2013

This paper proposes a new measure of gender di¤erences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...

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Working in family firms: less paid but more secure? Evidence from French matched employer-employee data

Bassanini, Andrea; Breda, Thomas; Caroli, Eve; … - HAL - 2010

establishments in the 2000s, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. This family/non-family wage …

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Are workers close to cities paid higher non-agricultural wages in rural China?

Duvivier, Chloe; Renard, Mary-Françoise; Li, Shi - HAL - 2012

In the present study, we investigate whether workers close to cities are paid higher non-agricultural wages than … impact. Distance always has a negative impact on wages but the effect is more detrimental, the closer the village is to the … urban center. We also find evidence of urban hierarchy effects: workers living close to bigger cities are paid higher wages …

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