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Intergenerational Mobility and Interpersonal Inequality in an African Economy
Lambert, Sylvie; Ravallion, Martin; Walle, Dominique Van de - HAL - 2014
intergenerational linkages contribute to current inequality? We address these questions using original survey data on Senegal that …How much economic mobility is there across generations in a poor, primarily rural, economy? How much do … include an individualized measure of consumption. While intergenerational linkages are evident, we find a relatively high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738725
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The segregative properties of endogenous jurisdiction formation with a land market
Gravel, Nicolas; Oddou, Rémy - HAL - 2011
This paper examines the segregative properties of Tiebout-like endogenous processes of jurisdiction formation in presence of a competitive land market. In the model considered, a continuum of households with different wealth levels and the same preferences for local public goods, private...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325711
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Cumulative Leadership and Entry Dynamics
Versaevel, Bruno - HAL - 2009
This paper investigates the combined impact of a first-mover advantage and of firms' limited mobility on the … development uncertainty and may enter by investing in lumpy capacity units. With perfect mobility, when the first entrant plays as … result is not robust to the introduction of firm-specific limited mobility constraints. If one firm is sufficiently less able …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790627
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Do homeowners stay unemployed longer ? A French micro-econometric study
Brunet, Carole; Lesueur, Jean-Yves - HAL - 2003
The objective of this paper is to provide microeconomic evidence for the so called “Oswald's hypothesis”, which is whether homeownership results in negative outcomes in the labour market. In a first step, a multinomial logit model for the choice of tenure status is estimated. Estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791548
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Science-Industry Links and the Labour Markets for Ph.D.s
Lanciano-Morandat, Caroline; Nohara, Hiroatsu - HAL - 2006
The aim of this research was twofold: firstly to highlight how the current “hybridisation” of the academic and industrial rationales exerts its influence over the new production of young scientists; secondly to compare, between five OECD countries (USA, France, Great Britain, Japan and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791962
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Prolific inventors and their mobility: scale, impact and significance. What the literature tells us and some hypotheses
Bas, Christian Le - HAL - 2007
regarding nature, scale, significance and impact of the mobility of this population of prolific inventors. In particular the … paper suggests an analysis that measures the effects on mobility on individual inventive productivity and the value of … invention. We call “prolificness” the capacity to accumulate knowledge and experience through mobility (that is to say through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793587
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Taxicab regulation and urban residents' use and perception of taxi services: a survey in eight cities
Darbéra, Richard - HAL - 2010
mobility of urban residents. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805912
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L'intégration des salariés étrangers dans une entreprise internationale : les enjeux et les pratiques
Deschamps, Marie - HAL - 2013
Profils rares, concurrents bien armés en termes d'attractivité... la bataille fait rage dans le secteur du jeu vidéo ! "Guerre des talents, crise de fidélité, comportement professionnel "zappeur", turnover...". Le contexte économique instable et fragile, rend les recrutements d'autant plus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820719
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Value of invention, prolific inventor productivity and mobility: evidence from five countries, 1975-2002
Latham, William; Bas, Christian Le; Volodin, Dmitry - HAL - 2011
that mobility plays in the behavior of prolific inventors, whom we identify based on the number of patents exceeding a … threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two dimensions: from firm to firm (inter-firm) and from one technical field to … invention value, (2) inter-firm mobility is a consistently positive determinant of productivity and (3) technological mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401092
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Utilitarianism or Welfarism: Does it Make a Difference?
Gravel, Nicolas; Moyes, Patrick - HAL - 2011
We show that it is possible to reconcile the utilitarian and welfarist principles under the requirement of unanimity provided that the set of profiles over which the consensus is attained is rich enough. More precisely, we identify a closedness condition which, if satisfied by a class of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325716