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Why is the gender wage gap in Japan so large compared with France? : a comparison based on decomposition analysis

Hori, Haruhiko; Nohara, Hiroatsu - HAL - 2006

markets in Japan and France. When it comes to the gender wage gaps, it is necessary to take the general structure of wages and … countries : France, an industrialized country where the disparities between sexes are outstandingly small, and Japan, where they … are particularly large. It is also proposed to explore the reasons why the male/female wage gap is so large in Japan in …

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Efficiency and Acceptability of Climate Policies: Race Against the Lock-ins

Rozenberg, Julie; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien; Stéphane, Hallegatte - HAL - 2013

Policymakers have good reasons to prefer capital-based policies - such as CAFE standards or feebates programs - over a carbon price. A carbon price minimizes the discounted cost of a climate policy, but may result in existing capital being under-utilized or scrapped before its scheduled...

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The Worst-Case Scenario and Discounting the Very Long Term

Fall, El Hadji - HAL - 2006

We propose an ethical viewpoint based on the possibility of the realization of the worst-case scenario in order to reduce future generations risks in terms of discounting. Applied to the question of conservation of a renewable resource, we show that an economy, where the social planner takes...

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Double Dividend with Involuntary Unemployment: Efficiency and Intergenerational Equity

Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille; Fodha, Mouez - HAL - 2005

This paper analyzes the double dividend and distributional issues within an overlapping generations models framework with involuntary unemployment. We characterize the necessary conditions for the obtention of a double dividend when the revenue of the environmental tax is recycled by a variation...

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A non-dictatorial criterion for optimal growth models

Kama, Alain Ayong Le; Van, Cuong Le; Schubert, Katheline - HAL - 2008

There are two main approaches for defining social welfare relations for an economy with infinite horizon. The first one is to consider the set of intertemporal utility streams generated by a general set of bounded consumptions and define a preference relation between them. This relation is...

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Climate policies deserve a negative discount rate

Fleurbaey, Marc; Zuber, Stéphane - HAL - 2012

We defend a methodology of discounting, for the evaluation of the long-term effects of climate policies, which relies on a social welfare objective, against the view that the market rate of return should be used for that purpose. We also show that in the long run, the discount rate for such...

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Female Access to Credit in France: How Microfinance Institutions Import Disparate Treatment from Banks

Cozarenco, Anastasia; Szafarz, Ariane - HAL - 2013

period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with mainstream banks and loan size is gender-insensitive. In the second period …, the MFI does co-finance above-ceiling projects with mainstream banks, and we observe a gender gap in loan size. The … results suggest that co-financing leads the originally gender-neutral MFI to import disparate treatment from mainstream banks. …

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