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Polish Households' behavior in the Regular and Informal Economies

Gardes, François; Starzec, Christophe - HAL - 2009

This paper analyzes characteristics of the informal economy in Poland in the context of transition, using a specific survey carried out in the framework of the classic Labour Force Survey, conducted by the Polish National Statistical office (GUS), in 1995. The participation probabilities of...

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A new estimation of the size of informal economy using monetary and full expenditures in a complete demand system

Gunes, Armagan Tuna Aktuna; Starzec, Christophe; … - HAL - 2013

We use the demand system approach to estimate the size of informal economy in Turkey following the methodology based on the analysis of the individual consumption behaviour proposed by Pissarides, Weber (1989), Lyssiotou et al. (2004), and Fortin et al. (2009). We extend this method by taking...

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Distributed Lag Models and Economic Growth: Evidence from Cameroon

Fouda, Boniface Bounoung - HAL - 2010

This paper studies the intertemporal effects of various economic variables on the cameroonian growth. Using a Geometric Lag Model, we find out that 50% of the total effect of variables used is accomplished in less than half of a year. When we employ a Polynomial Distributed Lag, we find out that...

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Assessing the Effect of Foster-Children Supply on Biological Children Education Demand : Some Evidence from Cameroon

Marazyan, Karine - HAL - 2009

Cameroon. To address the endogeneity of foster-children supply, we estimate both decision within a recursive bivariate probit … in Cameroon, kinship rules involve children to be hosted by brothers of the male kin group, and more likely by the eldest …. Using data from the demographic and health survey of Cameroon (2004), a dataset uniquely suitable for our purpose since …

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Institutional Evolution, static and dynamic approaches in assessing performance related to development goals

Fok, Michel; Tazi, Sophia - HAL - 2003

1. The Resocot Projet is a research project which brought together teams of researchers from the North and Africa, not all of which were familiar with the theoretical approach used at the outset. This project aims at developing a methodology and materials to help assess the performance of the...

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The Black Man's Burden - The cost of colonization of French West Africa for French taxpayers

Huillery, Elise - HAL - 2009

Was colonization very costly for the metropole? This view has been widely accepted among French historians even though little empirical evidence has been provided. Using original data from the colonial budgets of French West Africa (AOF) this paper provides new insights into the actual colonial...

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Union Monétaire en Afrique de l'Ouest: Quelles Réponses à l'Hétérogénéité des Chocs ?

Tapsoba, Sampawende Jules - HAL - 2011

Since the independences, having a single currency is an official policy objective of West African countries. In April 2000, West African decisions-makers decided to accelerate the integration of the region by creating a second monetary zone in addition to the WAEMU (West African Economic and...

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West African Monetary Integration and Interstates Risk-Sharing

Tapsoba, Sampawende Jules - HAL - 2011

There are continuing efforts at the monetary integration and unionization in West Africa. Several academics argue that a monetary union among West African states would be costly because of the magnitude of asymmetric shocks. A common monetary policy is inappropriate and ineffective to respond to...

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Pourquoi les consommateurs n'achètent-ils pas d'occasion ? Une analyse exploratoire

Bezançon, Marjolaine - HAL - 2012

diffèrent des dimensions de la motivation. De plus, les entretiens suggèrent une distinction entre freins relatifs aux produits …

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Corruption in Open-Source Software Organisations: A Theoretical Framework

Walther, Matthias - HAL - 2010

instrument influences the motivation in a negative way. Assigning the types of people joining the open source community on Frey … / Osterloh's motivation types makes an examination of the effects of the instruments possible and shows that only intrinsic …

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