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Fostering low carbon growth initiatives in Thailand

Criqui, Patrick; Peytral, Pierre-Olivier; Simon, … - HAL - 2012

profiles in Thailand over 1990-2008 ; review of methodologies low carbon scenario The conclusion will address the rationale for …

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Labour Flexibility and productivity: an Inquiry into the Thai Labour Regime”.

Jetin, Bruno - HAL - 2007

suppliers and customers. Our communication will focus on knowledge, labour markets and work in the context of Thailand. Thailand … viability of these scenarios in Thailand. We start with a short analysis of the state of science, technology and education in … Thailand (section 1). The conclusion is that formal knowledge is lagging behind and that improvements will take time. The …

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THE COGNITIVE INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR HYPOTHESIS: WHAT POSSIBLE EFFECTS FOR THAI LABOUR AND EDUCATION?

Jetin, Bruno - HAL - 2006

developed countries for its impact on employment, wages and the welfare state, is not an issue at stake in Thailand for the … revolution and knowledge will impact Thailand in the near future because they are shaping a new international division of labour … as the “taylorist” division of labour”. Thailand has benefited for decades from the “taylorist” division of labour to …

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The century of education

Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - HAL - 2009

This paper presents a historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period 1870-2010, using perpetual inventory methods before 1960 and then the Cohen and Soto (2007) database. The correlation between the two sets of average years of schooling in 1960 is equal to 0.96. We...

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Education inequalities and the Kuznets curves: a global perspective since 1870

Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - HAL - 2007

This paper presents a new dataset on educational attainment (primary, secondary and tertiary schooling) at the world level since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling is found to be rapidly decreasing, but we show that this result is completely driven by the decline in illiteracy. Then, we turn...

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The rise and fall of spatial inequalities in France: A long-run perspective

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren; Thisse, … - HAL - 2008

This paper uses a unique database that provides value-added, employment, and population levels for the entire set of French departments for the years 1860, 1930, and 2000. These data cover three sectors: agriculture, manufacturing, and services. This allows us to study the evolution of spatial...

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Asian Mediterranean

Gipouloux, François - HAL - 2009

Mediterranean is a powerful concept, elaborated by Braudel in his seminal study on The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II. It encompasses economic, social and cultural dimensions. In the fourteenth century, Genoa, Venice, Barcelona were global places, controlling...

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Marital fertility and wealth in transition era France, 1750-1850

Cummins, Neil - HAL - 2009

The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history. There are no convincing explanations for why France entered a fertility transition over a century before anywhere else in the world. This analysis links highly detailed individual level fertility...

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The convergence process of compulsory schooling in Western Europe: 1950-2000

Murtin, Fabrice; Viarengo, Martina - HAL - 2007

This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over the period 1950-2000. We show that a convergence process of mandatory years of schooling has occurred across these countries since 1950. We argue that the major driver of this phenomenom is the...

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The French Monetary Management in the Inter-war Period: the Dismissal of Open Market Procedure?

Barbaroux, Nicolas - HAL - 2006

The notion of rule surrounded the gold standard system. For instance, it is not seldom to present the gold standard system under the 1925 Keynesian expression as the rules of the game. However, it is nowadays quite crystal clear that gold standard system was not such a self regulating system in...

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