) earnings. Using a representative panel of 6016 French self-employed GPs over the years 1983-2004, we estimate an earnings … function to identify experience, time and cohort effects. The estimated gap in earnings between good and bad cohorts can be as … large as 25%. GPs who began their practices during the eighties have the lowest permanent earnings: they belong to the large …

The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of education on urban labour market participation and earnings in … does increase individual earnings in Abidjan, Bamako, Cotonou, Dakar, Lome, Niamey and Ouagadougou and opens the door to … education and earnings across cities and sectors. We also bring some support to the idea according to which social capital may …

compensating mechanism is mainly seen in the informal sector, in the upper tail of the earnings distribution and particularly in …

the numerus clausus strongly affect physiciansípermanent level of earnings. Our empirical approach allows us to identify … experience, time and cohort effects in GPs'earnings. The estimated cohort e§ect is very large, revealing that intergenerational … permanent earnings : they faced the consequences of an unlimited number of places in medical schools in the context of a high …

Is earnings management affecting (driving) the measures of earnings conservatism? If discretionary accruals were on … average negative, earnings management practices would be enhancing the association between bad news periods earnings and … returns, whilst the opposite would occur in good news periods. Consequently, the asymmetry in news recognition in earnings …

France. The multi-decomposition of an inequality measure allows us to put into perspective the role of social spending and …. However, we question the extent to which this multidimensional inequality indicator is a relevant tool for the study of … intergenerational inequalities. Does the multidimensional inequality indicator allow to deliver conclusions regarding retirement …

’ terms but not in either relative or ‘strong absolute’ terms, owing to the increase in inequality. This can be explained …