Welfare states have developed within nation-states and were initially aimed at their own citizens. Migrants, however, are also included in Bismarckian insurances due to the link between work contract and insurances. With this in mind, then, what happens with non-contributory benefits such as...

In this paper, we study CSR industrial firm behaviour in relation with social dialogue in two countries (France and Luxemburg). We address this topic by asking if two countries having different forms of social dialogue are able to induce even levels of incentives to implement social...

Using longitudinal data on households living in Germany, we quantify what part of the change in subjective well-being observed over the last two decades is predicted by changes in variables which typically show strong cross-sectional correlation with subjective well-being. We especially focus on...

Parties intégrantes des régimes socioéconomiques et politiques nationaux, participants de la définition des principales caractéristiques de la relation de travail, les systèmes de relations professionnelles sont l’un des cadres institutionnels majeurs des sociétés industrielles. Les...

Many developing countries face a pro-male gender gap in schooling, as boys are more likely to be enrolled at school than girls. This paper examines whether the current enrolment gap prevails equally both among children with a "regular" and an "irregular" schooling history. Children with a...

This paper investigates the effect of institutions on the unemployment gap between immigrants and natives in 11 EU-countries. We study whether benefits provide disincentive effects as the job-search theory suggests or rather efficiency gains as alternative theories propose. Further than the...

Dans ce papier, nous mettons en évidence l?existence d?une relation entre le fait d?être une entreprise innovante et d?adopter une démarche RSE. Trois propositions sont testées : (1) il y a une liaison directe et positive au niveau des entreprises entre un comportement d?innovation...

Dans le cadre de cette étude, nous nous intéressons aux déterminants familiaux économique et culturels de l’échec scolaire primaire au Mali. Pour ce faire, nous mobilisons les données de l’enquête ELIM-2006 qui dispose d'un module sur les dépenses et la consommation permettant de...

Generally speaking, the support of technological innovation has been viewed in terms of input such as R&D and instruments such as legal protection. The literature on innovation highlights the interactive nature of the innovation process in which non-technological activities are essential....

Item Response Theory (IRT) has recently been proposed as a framework to measure deprivation. It allows deriving a latent measure of deprivation from a set of dichotomous observed items of deprivation and analyzing determinants of deprivation. We investigate further the use of IRT models in the...