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Bertheau, Philippe - HAL - 2014

Research states that the success of a specific innovation cannot be predicted. As a consequence, the value of such an … innovation can only be stated very late in the development process, or even in retrospect. Our empirical research shows that …

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Rethinking business models for innovation

Chanal, Valérie; Akselsen, Sigmund; Blanco, Sylvie; … - HAL - 2011

One of the major challenges confronted by those in charge of technological innovation involves anticipating the value … potential market. Today, in many industrial sectors, the innovation boundaries have moved towards projects that are more and … build sustainable competitive advantages. The notion of Business Models, when applied to innovation, enables us to describe …

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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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The Informal Sector Wage Gap: New Evidence using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data

Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - HAL - 2013

We estimate the informal-formal sector pay gap throughout the conditional wage distribution using panel data from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa. We control for time-invariant unobservables and identification is stemming from inter-sector movers. We control for observables in a non-linear way...

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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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Virtual social currencies for unemployed people: social networks and job market access

Peruta, Maëlle Della; Torre, Dominique - HAL - 2013

Alternative currencies continue to develop all around the world, taking various forms (material or immaterial) and ful ll various functions. They are created in order to promote the local economy development and to ght against social exclusion. They are principally aimed to low income people...

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Unemployment Insurance, Job Search, and Informal Employment

Margolis, David; Navarro, Lucas; Robalino, David A. - HAL - 2014

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal...

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Mutual Organizations, Mutual Societies

Archambault, Edith - HAL - 2009

This article is an entry to be published in an International Encyclopedia of Civil Society in 2009. Mutual organizations exist everywhere in developed and developing countreies as well. After a definition founded on social economy principles, the paper gives the historical background of mutual...

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Classification of Social economy organizations

Archambault, Edith - HAL - 2013

International standard classifications were built to simplify the complex world of the business sector and analyse the international exchange of goods. Therefore they are less fitted to the classification of social economy organizations(SEO) and provision of services. Firstly this chapter...

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