Landslides are a severe problem during the rainy season in many mountainous regions in Asia where forests have been cut down so that mountain slopes are destabilized. In this study we analyze the extent and causes of landslides in a mountainous area in Northern Vietnam as viewed from the...

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.

An exchange economy in which agents have convex incomplete preferences defined by families of concave utility functions is considered. Sufficient conditions for the set of efficient allocations and equilibria to coincide with the set of efficient allocations and equilibria that result when each...

The subject matter on ethics has been recovered from philosophy due to the frequency that young executives show egotistic attitudes in detriment to concern towards others. This egocentric attitude leads to the vanishment of interest for the institution itself. On the other hand, the...

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...

The transition to retirement involves various disruptions, notably use of time and temporal perceptions. First, a qualitative study explores links between temporal perceptions and subjective experiences of retirement. Then, a quantitative study tests the influence of individual time perception...

Informality is ubiquitous in most developing countries. Understanding the informal economy is therefore of utmost importance from a political, economic and social point of view. Paradoxically, despite its economic importance, knowledge is extremely limited regarding the informal economy. It...

In this paper, using an original survey, we analyze the distributional impact of international migration across two regions of Algeria. A semi-parametric descriptive analysis is comple- mented with a parametric model. Remittances do not significantly change the Gini coefficient in nearly any of...