Relying on a consistent cross-national comparative data set – ECHP, we explore the extent to which changes in cross-sectional earnings inequality in 14 EU countries over the period 1994 and 2001 reflect an increase in lifetime earnings inequality or in earnings instability. Equally weighted...

Since the mid-2000s, terrorism has pushed the peripheries of West Africa into the news and the public eye. While the political implications of this phenomenon have been extensively documented, most commentators have adopted a zonal approach to terrorism in which the Sahel and the Sahara are...

The recession the United States economy entered in December of 2007 is considered to be the most severe downturn the country has experienced since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate reached as high as 10.1 percent in October 2009 - the highest we have seen since the 1982 recession. In...

This paper provides a theory of migrants’ decisions to remit and save under uncertainty in connection with future location decisions. We show that the impact of remittances on the risk faced by the migrant is more complex than usually acknowledged. On the one hand, their effect on aggregate...

This article analyses the process of spatial integration in ten European cross-border metropolitan regions. On the basis of three indicators, relating to flows of cross-border commuters, gross domestic product and the housing market, it suggests that spatial integration can be viewed as a...

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,...

Luxembourg was able to develop, enlarge and improve its corporatist welfare system with Scandinavian standards, creating one of, if not the most substantial regime in the EU/OECD. Several aspects are outstanding: expansion and improvement took place over the last two decades; important reserves...

In Cameroon, only 1/3 of children progress to secondary education. This paper estimates a sequential model of school attainment to investigate the role played by family background and individual characteristics in keeping children at school up to the end of secondary school. Using data of the...

Ce papier propose une synthèse de la littérature relative à l’impact, sur l’offre de travail des mères, de la disponibilité locale des services de garde d’enfants. Ces travaux sont menés dans le cadre standard d’un modèle néoclassique d’offre de travail individuelle adapté au...