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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?
Collins, William J.; O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, … - 1998
Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question : are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...
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Why are Fertility and Women's Employment Rates so Low in Italy? Lessons from France and the U.K
Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - 2021
According to the agenda for employment set by the EU in 2000 for the following ten years, the target for female employment was set at 60 per cent for the year 2010. While Northern and most Continental countries have achieved this quantitative target, the Mediterranean countries are lagging...
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On the determinants of regional trade flows
Nicolini, Rosella - In: International regional science review 26 (2003) 4, pp. 447-465
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Les migrations étudiantes dans le système universitaire français au début des années 90
Baron, Myriam - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine avril (2005) 2, pp. 281-300
migrate from one University City to an other. This work highlights part of the opportunities to know students? migrations from …
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Comportements migratoires des étudiants et des jeunes diplômés.. Ce que révèle le niveau régional
Baron, Myriam; Perret, Cathy - In: Géographie, économie, société 10 (2008) 2, pp. 223-242
Until now, analyses about migrations of young people linked with French Higher Education seemed to focus only on costs … students? and graduates? migrations didn?t take into account geographical context. From now, national statistic board allows … studying regional migrations both students and graduates. Now, one can answer to questions like: do they migrate the same way …
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Labour markets : institutions and reforms : summary of the third Labour Market Conference held in Aix-en-Provence on 4 and 5 December 2014 by the Aix-Marseille School of Economics...
Berson, Clémence; Roux, Sébastien; Verdugo, Gregory - In: Banque de France bulletin / Quarterly selection of articles 38 (2015), pp. 43-60
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Sports Diplomacy and Global Affairs
Raman, Nagalaxmi; Tandon, Vakul - 2023
Sports diplomacy which falls under the category of public diplomacy signifies engagement with the foreign public within the context of realizing policy objectives. This paper seeks to analyze important questions regarding how international sporting events can act as bargaining chips to bolster...
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`La France aux FranÃÂffois!` Displacing the Foreign Worker During the 1930s Depression
Syme, Tony - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000
Unemployment in the 1930s was low in France by international standards, nevertheless there was a virulent drive to expel immigrant workers as a means of limiting domestic unemployment. This involved not only the repatriation of the foreign chômeur, but also legislation to displace the foreign...
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Occupation, Marital Status and Life-Cycle Determinants of Women’s Labour Force Participation in Mid-nineteenth-Century Rural France
Grantham, George - European Historical Economics Society - EHES - 2012
The French census of 1851 is one of the few nineteenth-century censuses that attempted to record the work of women and children carried out within households. This paper argues that the occupational designations in the nominative census lists are an accurate indicator of employment status. This...
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Public Policy and Unemployment in Interwar France: An Empirical Approach
Syme, Tony - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000
This paper introduces an empirical model of the French interwar labour market that is comparable to models developed for the British labour market for this period, yet incorporates specific extensions in order to capture the peculiarities of the French case. The result is a model that can very...
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