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Organization and subcontracting relationships in French road haulage

Gavaud, Olivier; Brehier, Odile; Guilbault, Michèle; … - HAL - 2010

survey allows us to analyze subcontracting, by showing us each stage at which a shipment is contracted to the next carrier …. This analysis reveals the frequency of subcontracting in France, and gives us the opportunity to study why subcontracts are … subcontracting are studied. For each transport segment, subcontracting is described in terms of size of companies involved, services …

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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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The Informal Sector Wage Gap: New Evidence using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - HAL - 2013

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...

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Determinants of self-employment : the case in Vietnam

Do, Thi Quynh Trang; Duchêne, Gérard - HAL - 2007

The determinants of self-employment are widely studied in the economic literature in recent twenty years. However, in the case of Vietnam where self-employed population takes an important proportion in workforce, it remains an under researched area. By using the data from the Vietnam Household...

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Virtual social currencies for unemployed people: social networks and job market access

Peruta, Maëlle Della; Torre, Dominique - HAL - 2013

Alternative currencies continue to develop all around the world, taking various forms (material or immaterial) and ful ll various functions. They are created in order to promote the local economy development and to ght against social exclusion. They are principally aimed to low income people...

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Unemployment Insurance, Job Search, and Informal Employment

Margolis, David; Navarro, Lucas; Robalino, David A. - HAL - 2014

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal...

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Agriculture and trade liberalization in Vietnam

Coello, Barbara - HAL - 2007

This paper provides an ex-post analysis of the impact of trade liberalization in Vietnam between 1993 and 1998, taking into account regional differences. First, a price pass-through analysis is performed to measure how trade liberalization influence provincial prices. These results are plugged...

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How Wages and Employment Adjust to Trade Liberalization: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Austria

Brülhart, Marius; Carrere, Céline; Trionfetti, Federico - HAL - 2011

We study the responses of regional employment and nominal wages to trade liberalization, exploiting the natural experiment provided by the opening of Central and Eastern European markets after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1990. Using data for Austrian municipalities, we examine differential...

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Trade liberalization and poverty dynamics in Vietnam 2002-2006

Coello, Barbara; Fall, Madior; Suwa-Eisenmann, Akiko - HAL - 2010

This paper shows the evolution of poverty in Vietnam during the deepening of trade liberalization and examines the impact of trade-related variables at the household level. The study is based on a panel dataset of households followed in 2002, 2004 and 2006. Trade-related variables at the...

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Trade liberalization and heterogeneous within-firm productivity improvements

Bas, Maria; Ledezma, Ivan - HAL - 2008

This paper develops an intra-industry model of trade with heterogeneous firms to investigate the impact of trade on the evolution of within firm productivity. The main contribution is to incorporate endogenous labor productivity gains. Heterogeneous firms have different incentives to invest in...

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