This paper looks at the professional and family history of young people who definitively left school in 1998 and were surveyed three years later, in 2001. Using original data from a survey called “Generation 98” conducted by the French Ministry of Education and Labor we built a longitudinal...

We estimate the informal-formal sector pay gap throughout the conditional wage distribution using panel data from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa. We control for time-invariant unobservables and identification is stemming from inter-sector movers. We control for observables in a non-linear way...

In this study, we examine the effect of structural economic vulnerability of developing countries on their public indebtedness. We perform our econometric analysis by relying on 96 developing countries over the period 1980-2008. The results suggest evidence of a "U-shaped" relationship between...