This article sets out to investigate the reasons why some household businesses decide to register and become formal (while others do not) in order to shed light on the origins of informality. We use qualitative as well as quantitative data on household businesses (HB) derived from first-hand...

Deeply linked to the operational modes of industrial society and to the characteristics of each country, the traditional and modern models compresive four kinds of career: bureaucratic, professional, enterprising and sociopolitic.

The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of education on urban labour market participation and earnings in seven major West African cities. Our results show that although education does not always guard against unemployment, it does increase individual earnings in Abidjan, Bamako,...

Using comparable data from five West African capitals, we assess the rationale behind development policies targeting high rates of school enrollment through the prism of allocation of labor and earnings effects of skills across the formal and informal sectors, and not working. We find that...

Dans le premier d'une série de trois articles, l'auteur fait un bilan de l'état de santé des cadres de direction masculins. Ce bilan, établi à partir des données occidentales disponibles, démontre que les cadres de direction jouissent d'un état de santé supérieur à celui de la plupart...

This paper analyses current career development practices due to the decrease aí job opportunities: 1. the lack of excellence in Business Administration programs; 2. the work market turbulences and 3. the growth of part-time jobs. Deep transformations are necessary in order to change the future...