The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis (SMH) argues that low-skilled minorities residing in US inner cities experience poor labor-market outcomes because they are disconnected from suburban job opportunities. This assumption gave rise to an abundant empirical literature, which is rather supportive of...

The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of climate conditions on Bordeaux wine prices. Unlike previous studies (based on data from the main weather station in Mérignac), we use climatological variables from many local stations. Two models are compared: one where prices are related to...

This paper investigates the relationships between new technologies, innovative workplace practices and the age structure of the workforce in a sample of French manufacturing firms. We find evidence that the wage-bill share of older workers is lower in innovative firms and that the opposite holds...

Comparé aux autres pays européens, le vieillissement de la population a été, en France, particulièrement précoce. La part des personnes âgées de plus de soixante ans passe de 8,5% à 12,5% de la population entre la première moitié du XIXème siècle et l’entre-deuxguerres. Il ne fait...

On étudie le lien empirique entre changement organisationnel ou technologique et accès à la formation continue selon l’âge. L’objectif est de tester l’hypothèse selon laquelle les seniors souffriraient d’un désavantage comparatif pour la formation continue qui se manifesterait...

Two kinds of estimations of household savings are done in this paper : - First we define saving as result of income minus consumption. To do that we use the national accounts to benchmark saving of the Household budget surveys (HBS). More particularly we use subjective information given by...

The purpose of this paper is to measure the impact of Robert Parker's oenological grades on Bordeaux wine prices. We study their impact on the so-called en primeur wine prices, i.e., the prices determined by the ch^ateau owners when the wines are still extremely young. The Parker grades are...

I compare two different ways of integrating mortality into life-cycle models: the standard additive model with time preferences, on the one hand, and a formulation that rules out the existence of time preference, but allows for risk aversion with respect to the length of life, on the other hand....