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This paper deals with the implementation of a management device in a French regional government. Based on a case study, it sets out to describe the stages in the implementation of this management device, from its development by administrative staff to its initial rejection and subsequent...
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Education supply in universities of most European countries has for the last ten years become a strategic matter. At present, French universities consider education supply as an investment. But they do not utilize all incentive mechanisms in order to drive their strategies. At the beginning of...
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This paper studies the labor market in Vietnam during the transition towards market economy (1993-2006): we show that the public-private sector wage gap markedly increased, but that wage inequality decreased overall. Our aim is to assess how much of this evolution can be explained by workers'...
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We present a Cournot model that compares the critical threshold of collusion in Duopoly and Oligopoly Markets where the actors are private, mixed or public. We assume that the incentive critical threshold for collusion depends on the interconnection fees. The different threshold values...
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migration law as a dynamic constraint in a spatial model of economic growth in which a policy maker maximizes overall welfare …We develop a model economy adapting Hotelling's migration law to make individuals react to the gradient of their …
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This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of similar affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in a set of European countries to disentangle the influence of objective circumstances versus...
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Favoured by genetic engineering breakthroughs, a new type of firm has emerged in the pharmaceutical industry. New Biotechnology Firms (NBFs) are ‘bridging institutions', accelerating the commercialisation of science from academia to the pharmaceutical market and facilitating technological...
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This article examines the reaction function of labour market expenditure to the economic cycle and especially to the labour market situation in 24 OECD countries, over the period 1985 to 2010. The level of public debt is also introduced as a potential determinant of labour market policy...
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We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children … an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and …
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We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There … to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map out the correlation between school sports and adult labour …-market outcomes. We show that different types of school sports are associated with different types of jobs and labour-market insertion …
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