Malgré le rôle essentiel conféré au capital humain par les théories de la croissance endogène, diverses études empiriques ont remis en cause ces théories. Pour Aghion et Cohen (2003) le rôle de l’éducation sur la croissance varie selon le degré de développement du pays. En...

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to evaluate the effect of financial intermediation on economic growth in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during the period from January 2001 to December 2012. The study is based on two econometric approaches to first, the direct approach, using...

This study employs the Johansen cointegration and Granger causality to analyze the relation-ship between air pollution and economic growth in China. It allows to draw lessons and de-rive implications for the causal links between these two variables. The results show that these two variables are...

This paper reviews the development of labour market institutions in Norway, shows how labour market regulation has been related to the macroeconomic development, and presents dynamic econometric models of nominal and real wages. Single equation and multi-equation models are reported. The...

This paper reviews the development of labour market institutions in Norway, shows how labour market regulation has been related to the macroeconomic development, and presents dynamic econometric models of nominal and real wages. Single equation and multi-equation models are reported. The...

The Spanish 2nd Republic (1931-1936) witnessed one of the fastest and deepest processes of popular mobilization in interwar Europe, generating a decisive reactionary wave that brought the country to the Civil War (1936-1939). We show in the paper that both contemporary comment and part of the...

This paper examines whether the different macroeconomic performances of the German economy in two post-war decades provide evidence for the theory (first advanced by Mancur Olson) that sharp institutional breaks are conducive to economic growth because they destroy the existing network of...

Cet article vise à confronter l’évolution des salaires au développement socio-économique de la France aux 19ème et 20ème siècles. Nous cherchons à détecter les chocs temporaires et permanents qui ont affecté la croissance des salaires réels français depuis le début du 19ème...

Le prestige social associé à une profession, tout comme le salaire espéré, est un facteur important dans le choix d’orientation des individus. L’objectif de ce travail est de montrer que deux formations supérieures thématiquement différentes peuvent révéler un caractère...

Effet d’imitation (Easterlin, 1995), chances d’accès (Montmarquette & al., 2000 ; Demeulemeester & Rochat, 2001) ou encore prestige social (Demeulemeester & Diebolt, 2008), sont souvent évoqués afin d’expliquer les stratégies individuelles et les conséquences parfois contradictoires...