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...

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...

Cette recherche s'inscrit dans la continuité d'une intervention majeure en ergonomie participative au sujet des maux de dos affectant les manutentionnaires, réalisée à la Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) en 1989-1990 par une équipe de chercheurs financée par l'IRSST. Cette recherche...

Differences in labour force attachment across gender are important to explain the extent of the gender earnings gap. However, measures of women's professional experience are particularly prone to errors given discontinuity in labour market participation. For instance, the classical Mincerian...

In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about informal sector income dynamics vis-à-vis the formal sector. Some works have been done in this field using household surveys, but they only consider some emerging Latin American countries (Argentina,...

In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about the informal sector earnings structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the rich VHLSS dataset in Vietnam, in particular its three wave panel data (2002, 2004, 2006), we assess...