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Explanatory factors behind formalizing non-farm household businesses in Vietnam

Roubaud, François; Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Cling, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

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...

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Innovation and training: a dynamic count data model

Gallié, Emilie-Pauline; Legros, Diego - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007

This paper explores the relationship between innovation and vocational training. We consider a linear feedback model to … vocational training have a positive impact on the technological innovation. …

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Firms’ human capital, R&D and innovation: a study on French firms

Gallié, Emilie-Pauline; Legros, Diego - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

This article investigates the effects of human capital and technological capital on innovation. While the role of … been made on the effect of employee training on innovation. This article explores the relationship between innovation and … training our results show that the firm employee training has a positive impact on technological innovation. …

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Education and Labour Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan West Africa

Kuépié, Mathias; Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Roubaud, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

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,...

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Allocation of Labor in Urban West Africa: Insights from the Pattern of Labor Supply and Skill Premiums

Dimova, Ralitza; Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Roubaud, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010

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...

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Vocational Training and Innovation

Legros, Diego; Gallié, Emilie-Pauline - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

thanks to a continuous process of knowledge and externalities accumulation (Aghion and Howitt, 1998). In that context, this … paper explores the relationship between innovation and vocational training. Our methodological approach allows to contribute … whatever the indicators, vocational training has a positive impact on the technological innovation. …

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Reassessing the Gender Wage Gap in Madagascar: Does Labour Force Attachment Really Matter?

Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Roubaud, François - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

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...

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Informal versus Formal: A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Madagascar

Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Rakotomanana, Faly; Roubaud, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

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,...

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Segmentation and informality in Vietnam: A survey of the literature

Cling, Jean-Pierre; Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

Labour market segmentation is usually defined as the division of the labour markets into separate submarkets or segments, distinguished by different characteristics and behavioural rules (incomes, contracts, etc.). The economic debate on the segmentation issue has been focusing in developed...

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Who Suffers the Penalty? A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Vietnam

Roubaud, François; Nordman, Christophe Jalil; Nguyen, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013

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...

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