The problem addresses in this article is the bias to income and expenditure elasticity estimates caused by inattention to measurement error and unobserved heterogeneity. We gauge these biases by comparing cross-sectional, pseudo-panel and true panel data from Polish and American expenditure surveys.

Cet article commence par une description du systeme d'apprentissage et du lycee professionnel, indispensable a une bonne comprehension du systeme institutionnel de formation professionnelle des jeunes en France (section II). Suit la presentation des donnees dy CEREQ utilisees pour l'evaluation...

We use longitudinal individual wage and employement data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of changes to real minimum wage on an individual's employment status.

Using individual data on compensation, matched with establishment and firm data on performance and inputs, we compare the French and American pay systems.

We instillate rational cognition and learning in "seemingly riskless" choices and judgments. Preferences and possibilities are given in a stochastic sense and based on revisable expectations. The theory predicts experimental preference reversals and passes a sharp econometric test of the status...

The aim of this paper is to analyse individuals' feelings of justice concerning their wages conducting a survey of opinions. First of all, we wonder if these feelins are due to fairness norms or if they reflect a mere desire to maximize their incomes. If we can identify these norms, we wonder in...