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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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By Choice and by Necessity: Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment in the Developing World

Margolis, David - HAL - 2014

protection systems, labor market frictions, the business environment, and labor market institutions. However, self-employment in …

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Protecting Minorities in Large Binary Elections. A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data

Casella, Alessandra; Ehrenberg, Shuky; Gelman, Andrew; … - HAL - 2008

Democratic systems are built, with good reason, on majoritarian principles, but their legitimacy requires the protection of strongly held minority preferences. The challenge is to do so while treating every voter equally and preserving aggregate welfare. One possible solution is storable votes:...

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Decentralization and Ethnic Conflict: The Role of Empowerment

Tranchant, Jean Pierre - HAL - 2011

characteristics. Typically, decentralization should empower minorities which are small at the national level, while representing a … at the regional level for local minorities not being harmed by the decentralization process. …

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Changing business perceptions regarding biodiversity: from impact mitigation towards new strategies and practices

Houdet, Joël; Trommetter, Michel; Weber, Jacques - HAL - 2009

Business activities play a major role in biodiversity loss and, as a result, firms are under increasing pressures from … stakeholders to reduce their negative impacts on living systems. In response, business attitudes, behaviors and strategies … regarding biodiversity are progressively changing, suggesting that interactions between business and biodiversity could go …

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Accounting for changes in biodiversity and ecosystem services from a business perspective

Houdet, Joël; Pavageau, Charlotte; Trommetter, Michel; … - HAL - 2009

a business perspective. First, we seek to analyze how Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) may be used by firms to … changes in business accounting and reporting standards. Because this would imply significant changes in business information …

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A Rational Irrational Man?

Harin, Alexander - HAL - 2006

A man is a key subject of economics. “A man is irrational” - this opinion can be made from Allais paradox, risk aversion and other well-known fundamental problems. For a long time, this opinion was a barrier to proper solution of these problems and the development of the economics. A...

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Breadth and depth of french microfinance outreach : an evaluation

Brana, Sophie; Jégourel, Yves - HAL - 2011

business plan, whereas the second type, mainly monthly guaranteed benefit income recipients totally excluded from the banking …

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Work, jobs and well-being across the Millennium

Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2009

This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...

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Never the same after the first time: The satisfaction of the second-generation self-employed

Clark, Andrew E.; Colombier, Nathalie; Masclet, David - HAL - 2008

Previous empirical work has shown that the self-employed are generally more satisfied than salaried workers. This paper contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, using French data from the ECHP and British data from the BHPS, we investigate the domains over which this...

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