Ce document de travail propose une analyse quantitative détaillée sur longue période du fonctionnement du marche du travail britannique, avec la France pour point de comparaison. Au-delà des problèmes de mesure du taux de chômage, l’étude des créations nettes d'emplois montre que la...

We study the relationship between wages, human capital accumulation and work organisation in Morocco using matched worker-firm data for Metallurgical-electrical and Textile-clothing firms. While wages are found to rise with all human capital characteristics, returns to education and experience...

We draw some lessons from the Tunisian experience of social reforms and associated civil conflict. Our main interest is the riots that occurred after subsidy cuts and their possible substitution of price subsidies by direct cash transfers. We propose new welfare indicators apt to assess policy...

The success of export processing zones in Madagascar, or Zone Franche, since 1990 is an isolated case in Africa, apart from Mauritius. This paper explains that Zone Franche has had a very significant macro-economic impact in terms of exports and jobs. Thanks to Zone Franche, before the 2002...

La liberté de choix offerte par l’ensemble de choix d’un agent sur l’espace temps-revenu semble offrir une définition plus convaincante du niveau de vie que les définitions traditionnelles. Dans le prolongement d’un résultat de Pattanaik et Xu nous proposons dans cette note une...

The success of Export Processing Zones (EPZs) or the Zone Franche in Madagascar is, with the exception of Mauritius, an isolated and unrecognized case in Africa. The Zone Franche has had a highly significant macroeconomic impact in terms of exports and jobs. Madagascar became the number two...

This paper intends to problematize recent interpretations that admit a process of "brazilinization" of the North, starting from the tendencies of the job markets. In the center of our discussion is the hibridization concept, as a category capable of capturing the different ways of...