Le présent document vise à savoir s’il est possible d’étudier le parcours de vie des différentes cohortes au Luxembourg au moyen de la méthode de l’analyse par cohorte. Il se divise en trois parties principales. Dans la première, nous précisons ce que nous entendons par cohorte,...

Selon l’Organisation Mondiale de la Santé (OMS), l'obésité chez les enfants représente une véritable crise sanitaire, notamment du fait que sa prévalence est en constante augmentation dans la plupart des pays. Cependant, si la majorité des facteurs de risque sont bien connus,...

La présente recherche a pour objectif de montrer que la question de l’intégration ne concerne pas seulement les immigrés et leurs descendants, mais tous les individus d’une société, même ceux dépourvus de lien direct avec l’immigration. Cela revient à étudier la stratification...

We analyse the determinants of poverty transitions, defined as movements across a low income threshold, in Luxembourg. Data used are those from the Luxembourg socioeconomic panel „Liewen zu Lëtzebuerg? (PSELL3) running from 2003 to 2009. Using an endogenous switching first-order Markov model,...

This paper exploits a parametric variant of the Machado-Mata simulation methodology to examine wage distribution differences between native and foreign workers in Luxembourg. Relying on ‘parametric quantile regression’ in place of repeated linear quantile regressions cuts computing time...

In European border regions, policy networks steer processes of politico-economic integration and de-bordering. Policy networks integrate actors belonging to different decisional levels and countries. Actors tend to coordinate actions and communications in policy networks to formulate common...

The perceptions of individuals regarding their own economic situation are sometimes used to measure individuals’ welfare or standard of living, thereby complementing the conventional income-based approach. While the importance of using longitudinal data when analysing the determinants of...

This paper exploits a large-scale administrative dataset to document trends in male earnings inequality in Luxembourg over twenty years of rapid economic growth. A detailed error components model is estimated to identify persistent and transitory components of log hourly earnings variance. Given...

The presence of foreign workers is commonly deemed as driving wage inequality upwards. By 2006, seven in ten private sector workers in Luxembourg were foreign. This note builds on recentered influence function regression methods to identify where these foreign workers stand in the distribution...

Ruptures like the recent global financial crisis are inherent elements of our global ‘securitised’ financial system. Re-regulations and the maturing of the financial industry have led to re-organisation processes within the industry with far-reaching implications on international financial...