Inequalities in livelihood among socio-economic groups are caused by disparities in job availability, type and sector of employment and earnings there from, and transcend the boundaries of current generation through their impact on capability formation. This paper explores issues of occupational...

(english) Democratic Republic of Congo has known dramatic events for the last three decades. Statistical social economic data did not exist really or not available in the period. The Labour force survey, the first phase of the 1-2-3 survey, carried out in 2004-2005 and conducted by the National...

(english) Democratic Republic of Congo has known dramatic events for the last three decades. Statistical social economic data did not exist really or not available in the period. The Informal Sector survey, the second phase of the 1-2-3 survey, carried out in 2004-2005 and conducted by the...

En France, depuis les annees soixante-dix, les problematiques traitant du travail des femmes se sont transformees, donnant lieu a une production importante d'analyses, notamment en sociologie. C'est a l'evolution de ces problematiques sociologiques sur trente ans que nous nous interessons, en...

This paper seeks, by conducting a survey among businesses, to check the hypothesis that the firm's capacity to absorb external technologies and knowledges depends on their internal organization and on how they are organized with regards to their external environment (networks insertion). Our...

Substantial research has been devoted to the estimation and explanation of the gender wage gap. The effects of work status on wages have been studied somewhat less. This article draws on existing work to generate new estimates of the wage penalty associated with part-time employment in Belgium....

Wage inequality often creates much broader socio-economic inequality and may even accentuate them. For attaining equitable development convergence in wages and earnings is therefore desirable. This paper explores trends and patterns in wage differentials in India in the post reform period. Using...

This article describes the changes over decades of the female participation to the labor market in the United States. Theses trends are compared to the French and the Swedish cases. In general, gender inequalities have decreased since the 1950?s. But in average, gender gaps are larger in the...

Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...

Substantial research has been devoted to the estimation and explanation of the gender wage gap. The effects of work status on wages have been studied somewhat less. This article draws on existing work to generate new estimates of the wage penalty associated with part-time employment in Belgium....