Studies of the economic impact of tourism returns rarely offer a comparison between their potential driving effects and the costs of their accumulation. The aim of this paper is to devise a tourism macroeconomic profitability indicator capable of determining how the tourism sector can present a...

L’objet de cet article consiste à évaluer empiriquement l’impact de l’éducation publique ou privée sur la durée de chômage qui précède le premier emploi. Notre étude porte sur un pays en développement, Madagascar qui, comme beaucoup d’autres, connaît un essor considérable de...

This paper investigates whether group affiliation and stakeholder's nationality affect both the propensity of engaging in outward FDI and its effects on home performance. Using a sample of French manufacturers, we combine propensity-score matching with a Difference-In-Difference estimator in...

We propose an econometric analysis of the distributive impact of trade flows, foreign direct investment (FDI), official aid and migrants’ remittances. Results suggest that FDI increases inequality, while remittances tend to reduce inequality. Trade and aid have a non-linear relationship with...

Survey data reveals that the pace of increase in height stature experienced by successive cohorts born in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana during the late colonial period (1925–1960) is almost as high as the pace observed in France and Great Britain during the period 1875 to 1975, even when correcting...

The objective of this article is to study the interactions that exist between public research and private research in the French biotechnology sector. These interactions are observable at a double level. On the one hand, public research can influence private research, and conversely. Researchers...