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Intergenerational Transmission of Self-Employed Status in the Informal Sector: A Constrained Choice or Better Income Prospects? Evidence from seven West-African Countries
Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
This paper aims at highlighting the debate on firm heterogeneity in the informal sector by testing whether entrepreneurial familial background impacts informal businesses outcomes in the West African context. In the USA, a literature aiming at understanding the high intergenerational correlation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708619
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Wages and Human Capital in Exporting Firms in Morocco
Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe Jalil - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006
capital characteristics, returns to education and experience are much higher for the upper wages. Participation in on … situation. Moreover, work organisation and on-the-job training are dependent on the education process. Finally, we find strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861614
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Within-Firm Human Capital Externalities in Tunisia
Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe Jalil - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011
-firm mean education, and firm age. We find that part of what is usually considered as return to education may be due to within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011166569
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Simulating Targeted Policies with Macro Impacts: Poverty Alleviation Policies in Madagascar
Cogneau, Denis; Robilliard, Anne-Sophie - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008
We present the framework of a macro-micro simulation model for the study of the impact of economic policies on income distribution and monetary poverty in Madagascar. Modelling options and choices are discussed for the micro-economic module and for the macro-micro linkages. Econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707801
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Social Mobility and Colonial Legacy in Five African Countries
Bossuroy, Thomas; Cogneau, Denis - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008
-agricultural jobs. In the former British colonies, the links between origin, migration, education and occupational achievement appear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706587
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L'inégalité des chances sur le marché du travail urbain ouest-africain
Pasquier-Doumer, Laure - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
This paper aims at evaluating to what extent one’s position in the labour market is determined by his social background and what explains differences between seven West-African capital cities. Does the father’s position influence directly the occupational situation of his children through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707191
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Skill Mismatch and Migration in Egypt and Tunisia
Nordman, Christophe Jalil; David, Anda Mariana - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
their lower education using their migration experience. Finally, we estimate the determinants of skill mismatch on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795037
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The Policy Determinants of Investment in Tertiary Education
de la Maisonneuve, Christine; Strauss, Hubert; Boarini, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
The purpose of this article is to discuss how policies can affect investment in tertiary education in ways that would … to higher education. To this end, the analysis focuses on the institutional set-up of tertiary education that provides … incentives for supplying quality educational services; the private returns from higher education which act to attract prospective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099451
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The Simulation of the Educational Output over the Life Course: The GAMEO Model
Houeto, Dede; Gregoir, Stéphane; Courtioux, Pierre - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
The paper presents the GAMEO model. It is a dynamic microsimulation model which aims at analyse educational output. It develops a generational approach and put the stress on the ditribution of educational output differentiated by type an level of degree.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905134
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On-the-job learning and earnings in Benin, Morocco and Senegal
Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Wolff, François-Charles - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007
In this paper, we consider a model of on-the-job learning where workers learn informally by watching and imitating colleagues. We estimate the rate of knowledge diffusion inside the firm using three matched worker-firm data sets from Benin, Morocco and Senegal. We rely on non-linear least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010861382