Cet article soutient que l'on peut sortir de l'impasse dans lequel se trouve la théorie de la relation inégalités – croissance en utilisant la théorie de l'entrepreneur pour expliquer la croissance économique d'un pays. L'idée est la suivante. A l'image du cholestérol, il existerait de...

Levels of morbidity and healthcare utilisation related to respiratory pathologies are correlated, firstly, with an indicator of the level of risk that individuals are prepared to take, namely their ‘individual target level of risk', and then secondly with smoking behaviour. The results based...

La forte croissance de l’économie vietnamienne au cours des deux dernières décennies s’est accompagnée de profondes transformations économiques et sociales. En particulier, on a observé une forte réduction de la pauvreté, accompagnée d’une progression des inégalités sociales...

Nous dressons dans ce papier un bilan de la littérature sur le lien empirique entre libéralisation commerciale et développement selon trois acceptions différentes du « développement » et de l’impératif de justice que ce terme sous-entend dans les négociations à l’OMC. Rebaptisé «...

The paper asks why retirement can be so abrupt in countries such as France (½% of the workforce over 65), yet staged in Japan (8% over 65). We find part of the answer in tax laws that prevent people working and receiving a pension, and make little allowance for fair pension increases if...

The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a research and demonstration project that offered a generous time-limited income supplement to randomly selected welfare applicants under two conditions. The first, the eligibility condition, required that they remain on welfare for at least twelve months....

Throughout Latin America, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs play an important role in social policy. These programs aim to influence the accumulation of human capital, as well as reduce poverty. In terms of educational outcomes, a number of impact evaluation studies have shown that such...

In this paper we show that there is a reduction in the correlation coefficient between father and children schooling levels over time in Italy. However, focusing on equality of circumstances, we show that there is still a persistent difference in the odds of attaining a college degree between...