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We use household income tax data to estimate a structural model of female labor supply and utilization of paid child care outside the home. We find that child care costs have little impact on the participation decision of mothers of young children. However, they influence hours of work, as well...
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-1996, completed fertility may decrease to less than 2 children per woman born around 1970 and remain constant about 1.9 children per …, we assume that future behaviours will remain identical to the ones observed in 1995-1996, when fertility was quite low … estimated in 1996-1998, years of higher fertility. Results are found to be very consistent with the previous ones. …
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are consistent with a fertility of 1.9 children per woman, which corresponds to the observed fertility since 2000, and an … average age at birth of 30 years. For women, simulations lead to satisfactory results for completed fertility, fertility rate …
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Aggregate art price patterns mask a lot of underlying variation — both in the time series and in the cross-section. We argue that, to increase our understanding of the market for aesthetics, it is helpful to take a micro perspective on the formation of art prices, and acknowledge that each...
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La microfinance a fait l’objet d’un colloque organisé par la Banque de France en juillet 2011. Les participants ont souligné son utilité comme outil d’inclusion financière, de développement économique et de lutte contre la pauvreté en s’appuyant sur les expériences des pays du...
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Allocations familiales et autres transferts cibles sont generalement verses aux meres, sur la base de l`observation qu`augmenter la part des ressources controlees par les meres conduit a ameliorer le bien-etre des enfants. Nous recensons un ensemble de resultats empiriques qui etablisent le...
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One frequent objective of market research, and particularly in cross cultural contexts, consists in comparing those attributes that determine the choice of different sub groups of consumers. Practitioners may resort to different types of importance scales, or use ranking methods, or even pair...
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Il existe en Afrique un réel décalage entre les aspirations des jeunes et la réalité des marchés du travail. Les aspirations professionnelles des jeunes Africains ont ainsi peu en commun avec la demande de main-d’œuvre actuelle et prévue dans la région, ce qui rend peu probable une...
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La Suisse est, parmi les pays de l’OCDE, l’un de ceux où il y a la plus forte proportion d’immigrés – 27 % des personnes en âge de travailler sont nées à l’étranger – et la question de l’immigration occupe une place importante, tant dans l’agenda politique que dans le...
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analyze the relation between poverty and fertility starting from the data of Demographic Health Survey (EDS) of Haiti of 1994 … elementary capabilities of Sen [ 1985, 1992, 1999 ]. In addition, the concept of fertility retained is the parity - an average … relation "poverty-fertility" seems more complex and more or less direct. Indeed, one notes that the very widespread idea - exit …
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