Once individual unobserved heterogeneity and human capital depreci- ation have proved not to fully account for wage di erences consecutive to parenthood, a remaining explanation (discrimination aside) could be that parents select into low wage rms. This paper tests that hypothesis by resorting...

L’hypergamie féminine, définie comme la propension des individus à former des couples au sein desquels la femme se trouve en infériorité par rapport à l’homme, est un phénomène observé dans de nombreuses sociétés et du point de vue de nombreux critères. À l’encontre d’une...

En 1962, l’accession de l’Algérie à l’indépendance a entrainé le départ massif vers la métropole des Français qui y étaient installés. Or, bien que leur arrivée remonte désormais à plus de cinquante ans, on ne dispose toujours pas d’études approfondies sur le parcours de ces...

This paper provides new empirical assessment on the long-term e ciency of locally-targeted tax incentives in revitalizing distressed areas, and on the impact on local population. We focus on the rst generation of the French \Enterprise Zone" initiative, implemented in 1997 in France. On the...

Generally, economists interested in network effects analyse these effects when the consumption externalitycreated by the demand for the good is produced inside the industry itself. But it can be conceived that network effects takeplace from one industry to another. This happens when the utility...

Indirect taxation is of no use when nonlinear income taxation is available in aneconomy where everyone has the same taste for goods: an elementary proof ofthis result, due to Atkinson and Stiglitz (1976), is provided.