L’audit social en tant que champ de recherche et pratique professionnelle a tout intérêt à recourir à une analyse en terme de capital humain. La première partie de cet article a pour objectif de mettre en évidence dans quelle mesure la notion de capital humain est indispensable à...

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...

Social auditing both as a research topic and a business field has a vested interest to resort to a human capital based analysis. The first part of this article sets the goal to demonstrate how the concept of human capital is of paramount importance for social auditing. The case for human capital...

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...

Les différences constatées dans la participation au travail des hommes et des femmes peuvent en partie expliquer les disparités de revenus. Cependant, l’expérience professionnelle des femmes est particulièrement sujette aux erreurs de mesures du fait des interruptions répétées qui...

This paper questions the soundness of the concept of human capital as it is used today in human resources management. The following paradox gets the analysis started : on the one hand, this concept is very successful and widely used by journalists, consultants and human resources professionals,...

The IT revolution is already a reality for companies of advanced nations and for many emerging nations as well such as the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China). But what about companies of other nations ? Our paper fills a gap by questioning the drivers of IT adoption and especially the role...