The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that inherited humain capital is a powerful vector of inequality formation and persistence, irrespective of its links with financial wealth endowment. This paper argues that the agents who inherit a low level of human capital bear a greater utility...

The determinants of self-employment are widely studied in the economic literature in recent twenty years. However, in the case of Vietnam where self-employed population takes an important proportion in workforce, it remains an under researched area. By using the data from the Vietnam Household...

We test the wealth maximization theory of quitting behavior on the German Socioeconomic Panel (1985-2003). With the interpretation of job satisfaction as an expression of the experienced preference for the present job against available alternatives, the propensity to stay in the present job is...

We emphasize the major influences of experienced utility gaps or regret, i.e. the difference between what happened and what might have happened, on job satisfaction. The main prediction that we test is that job satisfaction correlates with the wage gaps experienced in the past and present,...

This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non-monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by building a...

A partir de 2003, les entreprises françaises sont tenues de divulguer le montant des rémunérations de leurs auditeurs, mais de nombreuses entreprises ont décidé de divulguer volontairement ces informations dans leur rapport annuel 2002. Dans ce travail, nous tentons d'expliquer le montant...

Selon les règles comptables françaises, les sociétés ont la possibilité de " capitaliser " leurs frais de R&D sous certaines conditions. En analysant les rapports annuels 2000 des sociétés non financières appartenant à l'indice SBF 250, nous avons tenté de comprendre pourquoi certaines...

On peut observer, depuis le milieu des années 80, que les grands groupes internationaux de l'Union Européenne pratiquent le " vagabondage comptable " en choisissant le référentiel le mieux approprié à leurs besoins, selon le marché où ils veulent être cotés. Dans une première partie,...