There has recently been a strong drive to develop apprenticeship in France, as one means of decreasing youth unemployment. Our aim in this paper is to try to measure the “pure” within‐firm training effect on school‐to‐work transition. We address the problem of the transition to the...

Over the last thirty years, economic models of the family have been developed to recognize that potentially conflicting interests may shape family decisions and the sharing of resources within families. This paper provides an overview of how decision-making within households has been modelled...

Most household models assume that decisions taken inside the family are Pareto optimal. However, empirical studies cast doubts upon the efficiency assumption. The sharing of time among men and women between market work and household work is highly differentiated by gender. In this paper we...