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Heterogeneity in the Egyptian informal labour market: choice or obligation?

Harati, Rawaa - HAL - 2013

This paper provides historical and empirical arguments that can explain the development of the Egyptian informal sector. After recalling the various approaches proposed in the literatures, it identifies the configuration that overrides the Egyptian labor market by allowing for the heterogeneity...

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Workforce reduction and firm performance: a comparison between French publicly-listed and non-listed companies, 1994-2000

Reynaud, Bénédicte; Degorre, Arnaud - HAL - 2007

Using an exhaustive database with labour, accounting and financial market information on French firms (1994-2000), the authors analyse the causes and the consequences of a workforce reduction in 1996 - the year chosen as reference - on firms' performance in a long term perspective. One important...

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Workforce reduction and firm performance: Evidence from French firm data

Reynaud, Bénédicte - HAL - 2010

Using a large annual data base of French firms (1994-2000), this article examines the determinants of a workforce reduction of publicly-listed and non-listed companies and their consequences on firm performance. Firstly, workforce reduction appears to be a defensive response to an adverse...

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Star wars: The empirics strike back

Brodeur, Abel; Lé, Mathias; Sangnier, Marc; … - HAL - 2012

Journals favor rejections of the null hypothesis. This selection upon results may distort the behavior of researchers. Using 50,000 tests published between 2005 and 2011 in the AER, JPE and QJE, we identify a residual in the distribution of tests that cannot be explained by selection. The...

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Determinants for Labour Contract Length: A French Microeconometric Study

Halima, Mohamed Ben; Halima, Bassem Ben - HAL - 2008

Two types of analyses are conducted to explain the determinants of labour contracts length. The first analysis emphasizes on the contracting costs and the level of uncertainty. The second analysis focuses on the incentive and selection effect of the contract length. This paper test the...

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The determinants of Job Access Channels: Evidence from the Youth Labor Market in France

Ghrairi, Jihan - HAL - 2013

This article aims to study youth employability on the job access channel that provided their entry into the labor market. We examine the determinants of the formal and informal job access channels. For this purpose, we estimate a Multinomial Logit model of access channels controlling for...

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Bringing It All Back Home Return migration and fertility choices

BERTOLI, Simone; Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2012

that migration might not be an unmitigated blessing for Egypt, as it has contributed to slow down the process of …Return migration exerts wide-ranging influence upon the countries of origin of the migrants. We analyze whether … rates. Relying on a two-step instrumental variable approach to control for the endogeneity of the migration decisions, we …

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Bringing It All Back Home Return migration and fertility choices

BERTOLI, Simone; Marchetta, Francesca - HAL - 2012

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A Collective Model of Female Labor Supply : Do Distribution Factors Matter in the Egyptian Case ?

Hendy, Rana; Sofer, Catherine - HAL - 2010

This paper examines the intrahousehold ressource allocation in Egyptian married couples and its impact on females labor supply. Using data from the Egyptian Labor market and Panel Survey of 2006, we estimate a discrete-choice model for female labor supply within a collective framework. The...

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Rethinking Time Allocation of Egyptian Females

Hendy, Rana - HAL - 2010

The present research explores for the first time to our best knowledge the extremely biased division of labor within Egyptian households. Time activities in respect of paid and unpaid work are an important aspect of this study. The classical dichotomy of "work in the market" versus "leisure" may...

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