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Does the law alone explain the rise in bankruptcies in XIXth century France?
Hautcoeur, Pierre-Cyrille; Levratto, Nadine - HAL - 2006
This paper is the first result of a project aiming at understanding the history of bankruptcy law from an empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930170
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Les émetteurs sur le marché financier français : une hiérarchie nouvelle après 1895
Hautcoeur, Pierre-Cyrille; Romey, Carine - HAL - 2006
19 ème siècle (a history of the French capital market in the 19th century). In this chapter, we discuss the changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739057
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Was the French Patent System democratic ? France, 19th century
Galvez-Behar, Gabriel - HAL - 2008
Great-Britain, France and United States, she suggested that American economic performance was based on a « democratization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793895
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L'évolution démographique récente en France : une mortalité relativement faible aux grands âges
Prioux, France; Barbieri, Magali - In: Population (french edition) 67 (2012) 4, pp. 597-656
and rates among young people are no longer increasing. The marriage rate is falling and the divorce rate has stabilized …France had 65.3 million inhabitants as of 1 January 2012, including 1.9 million in the overseas departments. The … through natural increase. There are now more African than European immigrants living in France. Fertility was practically …
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Explaining stunting in nineteenth century France
Postel-Vinay, Gilles; Sahn, David - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA - 2006
that is stunted across the century, especially in the southern part of France. Our models of the determinants of stunting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069761
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Wage forms and hierarchy in late 19th century French industry
Bourdieu, Jérôme; Postel-Vinay, Gilles - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA - 2006
Two opposing views of industrialization are commonly expressed. The first emphasizes capitalism’s coercion of workers into furnishing more effort than they had long been accustomed to when they themselves decided the rhythm and timing of work. In this optic, factory discipline is an essential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027418
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Le Statut Nutritionnel des Elèves de L'École Polytechnique
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Abstract: Examines the Physical Stature of The elite students attending the École Polytechnique military academy in the Early Nineteenth century. Concludes that their height was some 7 cm greater than that of average French youth their age.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005403930
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The Nutritional Status of French Students
Komlos, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, …
Examines the Physical Stature of The elite students attending the École Polytechnique military academy in the Early Nineteenth century. Concludes that their height was some 7 cm greater than that of average French youth their age.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005403933
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Legal versus economic explanations of the rise in bankruptcies in 19th century France
Hautcoeur, Pierre-Cyrille; Levratto, Nadine - HAL - 2007
This paper aims at giving an explanation of the changes in the number of bankruptcies during the second part of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. We wonder in particular whether changes in bankruptcy law, which are substantial during the period, suffice to explain the rise in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738788
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Bankruptcy law and practice in 19th century France
Hautcoeur, Pierre-Cyrille; Levratto, Nadine - HAL - 2007
In this paper, we try to measure the impact of the changes in French bankruptcy law in the 19th century focusing on the behaviour of economic agents as users of bankruptcy law for the sake of finding the best solution to their economic problems. Debtors used bankruptcy law in order to minimize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739071