The paper focuses on the effects of formal and informal on-the-job training on wages and promotions for men and women. For that purpose, we use the 1999-2000 Canadian Worplace and Employee Survey (WES). Using a simulated maximum likelihood, we estimate a recursive trivariate probit that...

Notre article cherche à décrire les parcours des candidats à la validation des acquis de l’expérience (VAE) et le rôle joué par les entretiens conseil et les prestations d’accompagnement sur chacune des étapes de ce dispositif. Pour ce faire, les données sur l’ensemble des...

Notre étude exploite l’édition 2010 de l’enquête Surveillance médicale des expositions aux risques professionnels (SUMER) pour dresser un état des lieux des expositions des salariés français aux agents CMR sur leur lieu de travail. Au total, 2,2 millions de personnes, soit 10,2% des...

In 2002, the French policymakers adopted the VAE procedure, allowing to obtain a part or the whole of a diploma without following an initial or on-the-job training. Their main goal was to fight against the work exclusion and in priority for the unskilled persons. This paper empirically...

Large disparities between willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness-to-accept (WTA) are commonly encountered in empirical studies and raise some important controversies. Nevertheless, the relationships between WTA and WTP can help understand not only how a service is valued but also how it can be...

Cet article propose une revue de la littérature sur l’efficacité des expériences de politiques d’éxonérations ou d’allègements de charges sociales ciblées sur les territoires aux Etats-Unis et en France. Elle montre que leurs résultats sont mitigés en termes de créations nettes...

The paper focuses on the early career patterns of young male and female workers. It investigates potential dynamic links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for an employer to assess female workers’ productivity and...

Few studies have explored, to date, the issue of the monetary valuation of non-fatal injuries caused by road traffic accidents. The present paper arises interest in this question and aims to estimate, by means of the contingent valuation, the willingness to pay (WTP) of French households to...

The contingent valuation (CV) method is an attractive approach for comparing home care to hospital care in which the only difference is patients’ well-being during the treatment process and not health outcomes. We considered the empirical situation of blood transfusion (BT) in cancer patients...

Homeownership and job downgrading : our empirical study stems from previous research on the effects of residential status on microeconomic labour market outcomes. It focuses on employees and assesses the a priori ambiguous impact of homeownership on downgrading. We use the French data set of the...