The paper focuses on the early career patterns of young male and female workers. It investigates potential dynamic links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for an employer to assess female workers' productivity and...

L'objet de cet article est d'évaluer le rendement salarial de la participation à une formation continue en entreprise (formelle et informelle), en centrant l'analyse sur les différences entre sexes. Pour ce faire, les données françaises de l'enquête Formation continue 2000 sont...

Large disparities between willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness-to-accept (WTA) are commonly encountered in empirical studies and raise some important controversies. Nevertheless, the relationships between WTA and WTP can help understand not only how a service is valued but also how it can be...

The aim of this paper is to explain the growing wage differentials between men and womenduring their working careers. We provide a dynamic model of statistical discrimination, whichintegrates specific human capital decisions: on-the-job training investment and wages areendogenously determined....

Few studies have explored, to date, the issue of the monetary valuation of non-fatal injuries caused by road traffic accidents. The present paper arises interest in this question and aims to estimate, by means of the contingent valuation, the willingness to pay (WTP) of French households to...

Cet article propose une revue de la littérature sur l'efficacité des expériences de politiques d'éxonérations ou d'allègements de charges sociales ciblées sur les territoires aux Etats-Unis et en France. Elle montre que leurs résultats sont mitigés en termes de créations nettes...

En 2002, les pouvoirs publics français ont mis en place un dispositif de reconnaissance officielle des compétences acquises par l'expérience (VAE), qui permet d'obtenir tout ou partie d'un diplôme sans devoir suivre de cursus de formation initiale ou de formation continue. Leur principal...

L'étude empirique proposée dans cet article s'inscrit dans la lignée des travaux portant sur les effets des choix résidentiels sur la qualité de l'insertion professionnelle sur le marché du travail. Elle se concentre en particulier sur la population en emploi et cherche à connaître...

Context: The significant survival benefit of chemotherapy over best supportive care for locally advanced and metastatic NSCLC has been amply demonstrated in the literature. However, there is no clear evidence of the impact of the type of chemotherapy or of a superiority of combination...

The contingent valuation (CV) method is an attractive approach for comparing home care to hospital care in which the only difference is patients' well-being during the treatment process and not health outcomes. We considered the empirical situation of blood transfusion (BT) in cancer patients...