The use of proxy variables to control for unobservables when estimating a production function has become increasingly popular in empirical works in recent years. The present paper aims to contribute to this literature in three important ways. First, we provide a structured review of the...

To investigate why young workers exhibit higher unemployment and separation rates, I extend the basic matching model of Pissarides by incorporating learning on match quality as Pries and Rogerson (2005). Match quality is heterogenous and is inferred from the output performance. Because matches...

We analyse gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labour market developments occurred: institutional changes have loosened the use of flexible and atypical contracts; the female employment rates and educational levels have substantially...

This paper analyzes the effects of weather anomalies on migration in sub-Saharan Africa. Theoretically, we show how weather anomalies induce rural-urban migration that subsequently triggers international migration. We distinguish two transmission channels, an amenity and an economic geography...

Geoengineering, i.e. the use of artificial techniques aiming at cooling the planet, is increasingly considered as a realistic alternative to emission mitigation. Several methods are promising for their capacity to quickly halt global warming at a moderate cost. Such cheap technologies might be...

This study investigates whether and to what extent further unemployment experience for youths who are already long-term unemployed imposes a penalty on subsequent labor market outcomes. We propose a flexible method for analyzing the effect on wages aside of transitions from unemployment and...

Like active labour market programmes (ALPMs), grade repetition could generate two types of effects. Better/worse outcomes due to programme participation (i.e. the fact that pupils repeat a particular grade). This is what the existing literature on grade repetition has focused on. Another...

Nous présentons deux procédures d’inscription des élèves en première année de secondaire. Chaque procédure permet aux parents de révéler leurs préférences en termes d’écoles. Lorsque les préférences sont en conflit, on utilise des ordres de priorités prédéfinis. Ces ordres...

Le 18 mai, les Belges sont appelés à voter. Ils en ont l’obligation, contrairement à la plupart de leurs homologues européens, qui sont nombreux à s’abstenir. L’abstention est-elle un danger pour la démocratie ? Le vote obligatoire apporte-t-il une solution ? Quelle est la...

Les sociétés occidentales sont en pleine mutation et sont devenues, à la fin du siècle passé, de véritables économies de la connaissance. Le brevet vise à rendre excluable cette connaissance et à stimuler, par ce biais, l’innovation. Sur le marché des brevets qui se développe petit...