Whereas the process of integration economic is accentuated in Europe, regional integration dynamics of space seems to be a crucial issue. Reflexions engaged, in particular through the SDEC, aim at promoting a voluntarist policy of polycentric adjustment of European space. Thus we are led to...

This paper assesses the impact of structural funds on the manufacturing sector of 145 European regions in the context of a Verdoorn’s law for the period 1989-2004. Three main innovations are included. First, we pay attention to the nature of the cohesion objective under study. Second, the...

L'objectif de cet article est d'analyser la dépendance spatiale dans les processus de convergence des régions européennes. D'une part nous appliquons les méthodes récemment développées de l'analyse exploratoire des données spatiales (Anselin, 1996) pour affiner la description de la...

In developing countries and particular in Senegal the majority of women are poor. Microenterprises created by a part of these women, especially in the informal sector, qualitatively improve their lives and those of their families and arouse increasingly growing interest for public authorities....

This article presents the age profiles of consumption and labor incomes computed for France following the methodology of the National Transfer Accounts. The life-cycle deficit, which is obtained by the difference between the consumption and income profiles, permits to measure the contribution of...

Le taux d’activité féminine au Maroc, malgré un trend mouvant dans les années entre la fin du XX siècle et le nouveau millénaire n’a pas subi des accroissements remarquables. Dans ce travail nous mettons en relief quelques facteurs qui expliquent la participation féminine au marché...

Pour examiner la question de la répartition des ressources au sein du mé- nage, les économistes ont d?abord été tentés d'étendre les modèles de comportement développés pour les personnes seules (qui sont généralement jugés comme satisfai- sants par la profession) à des couples ou...

Research aimed to analyze the role of the social actors, in France and in Quebec, in the governance of the conciliation. At the end of research, we propose the track of a strategy renewed around the concept of flexi-security, in a new and widened meaning. Thus, while the flexi-security of...