Les travaux sur l'insertion professionnelle des jeunes se sont multiplies ces dernieres annees. Beaucoup d'entre eux appellent a une reflexion theorique et methodologique en vue de definir un champ de recherche qui reste flou. C'est pourquoi il parait utile d'essayer d'identifier les principales...

his empirical study consists of an econometric test of the complementary effect of trade and education on long run growth. The tests are perfomed using a mixed specification built on the Benhabib and Spiegel [7] model and include an estimator of trade openness. Regressions are run on a long term...

The delegation of tasks to a subordinate and his access to key firm resources allow an organization to make optimal use of his knowledge and ability, but at the same time, thanks to on-the-job learning and the possibility of expropriation of these resources, this might increase the agent's...

In this paper we illustrate the possible normative relevance of the links between human capital and financial assets via an example related to growth. When the financial structure is complete, growth is indeterminate because individual allocations between human capital and a tradable asset are...

This paper investigates human capita; investments of migrants whose duration in the host country is limited, either by contract or by their own choice. the first part of the paper develops a model, distinguishing between migrants who immigrate on a fixed contract, and migrants who choose their...

This paper investigates how different dimensions of social capital influence innovation output. The novelty of the paper lies in the fact that for measuring social capital, instead of one overall index, six factors are constructed of 20 indicators using principal components analysis. Then, human...

One of the main tasks of the transition economies is to catch up with the advanced levels of highly developed economies. The lack of social capital is a major impediment to this process, as it does not allow taking advantage of the comparatively high level of human capital in these countries....