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Trade, conflicts and political integration : explaining the heterogeneity of regional trade agreements

Vicard, Vincent - HAL - 2008

This paper investigates the determinants of the shape of regional trade agreements (RTAs). Because the world is constituted by independent political entities, international trade flows take place in a system where property rights are unsecured and RTAs should be understood as regulation...

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Morts pour la France: do demographic factors alone explain the regional disparities of the great war?

Gilles, Henri; Guironnet, Jean-Pascal; Parent, Antoine - HAL - 2013

This article delivers the first comprehensive analysis of the new database, 'Mémoire des hommes', which gathers more than 1 Million French soldiers officially recognized as dead for France during WW1. Crossing this source with the 1911 census, we evaluate the potential numbers of recruits by...

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The U.S. economy today: between systemic crisis and permanent war

Herrera, Rémy - HAL - 2013

This paper studies the U.S. economy from an original point of view: that of the links existing between crisis and war … that are being implemented, as well as the "currency war" issue. Then, the central focus moves towards U.S. warfare as a … crisis and war exacerbe the current capitalist contradictions. …

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Benefits to elite schools and the formation of expected returns to education: Evidence from Mexico City

Estrada, Ricardo; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2014

We study the effects of admission into elite public high schools in Mexico City on students' expected earnings, arguing these effects provide an indication of the value-added those schools produce. Using data for the centralized and exam-based allocation of students into schools and an adapted...

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Returns to Education and Education-Occupation Mismatch within a Transition Economy. Empirical Analysis for the Russian Federation

Kyui, Natalia - HAL - 2010

This paper makes a thorough analysis of the returns to tertiary education and education-occupation matches within a transition economy and compares these returns to similar returns in a developed economy. This study shows through the example of the Russian Federation that the increase in the...

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The Return to Schooling in Structural Dynamic Models: A Survey

Belzil, Christian - HAL - 2006

This papers contains a survey of the recent literature devoted to the returns to schooling within a dynamic structural framework. I present a historical perspective on the evolution of the literature, from early static models set in a selectivity framework (Willis and Rosen, 1979) to the recent...

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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - HAL - 2004

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...

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Testing the Specification of the Mincer Wage Equation

Belzil, Christian - HAL - 2006

Using panel data taken from the NLSY, I perform the joint estimation of i) a reduced-form dynamic model of the transition from one grade level to the next with observed and unobserved heterogeneity, and ii) a flexible version of the celebrated Mincerian wage equation with skill heterogeneity,...

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Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: An International Comparison

Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - HAL - 2013

This note provides an extensive survey of studies estimating steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe … US, there is some evidence that both time effect and modeling choices affect estimates for Europe. …

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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US: New Results

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - HAL - 2012

substitution in their household production in Europe. …

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