Economic theory predicts that individual migration decisions for working-age adults will depend on area differences in wages, housing costs, and amenities. While the importance of wages and amenities is well-established from previous empirical studies, evidence regarding housing costs is far...

Cette étude propose un panorama de la situation de l'emploi salarié agricole en France et de son évolution au cours de la période contemporaine en mobilisant différentes sources statistiques. Après avoir décrit les conditions générales de l'emploi salarié -le type de contrat, la nature...

This paper attempts to determine whether residential location affects unemployment duration. Our analysis is based on a spatial job search framework that shows the importance of dissociating the role of travel time from physical distance in unemployment duration. The contribution of our study...

The type (antixenosis or antibiosis) of resistance against the aphids Myzus persicae (Sulzer) and Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas) was characterized for the wild tuber-bearing potatoes, Solanum chomatophilum Bitter and Solanum stoloniferum Schltdl. & Bouché through behavioral (olfactometry and...

La réforme de la PAC offre l’opportunité de proposer des pistes d’amélioration des mesures agroenvironnementales (MAE). L’analyse des facteurs de choix d’une MAE par les agriculteurs peut mettre en évidence les leviers mobilisables pour augmenter leur participation à ce dispositif....

Natura 2000 is a European Union’s network of protected areas. In France, all forest owners whose forest is located in a Natura 2000 site could enroll in Natura 2000 program. After enrollment, the forest owner will benefit from a financial support which covers all theadditional cost due to...

There is a wide consensus among international institutions and national governments in favor of compact (i.e. densely populated) cities as a way to improve the ecological performance of the transport system. Indeed, when both the intercity and intra-urban distributions of activities are given, a...

In France, despite access to safe public drinking water, and in spite of its excessively high price compared to tap water, 42 % of the population still regularly drink bottled water. Using scanner data on French consumption combined with raw water quality and other environmental data, and using...

Competition in a multi-unit auction is measured both by the number of bidders and by the relative size of their demands, compared to the number of units on sale. For the same degree of competition (identical aggregate demand and supply), we can observe different demand structures. Do they have...