Our study proposes an econometric decomposition of the wage gap and of the difference inemployment probabilities between French workers whose both parents had French citizenshipat birth and French workers whose at least one parent had the citizenship of an Africancountry at birth. For that...

The paper proposes a new application of the collective model of household behaviourto the analysis of intra-household inequality using the answers to the questions on subjectivewelfare.The collective approach attributes to each household member distinct preferences andassumes that household...

The aim of these lecture notes is to present a few mathematical factsabout the bifurcations of nonlinear difference equations, in a concise andsimple form that might be useable by economic theorists.

Variance reduction has always been a central issue in Monte Carlo experiments.Population Monte Carlo can be used to this effect, in that a mixture of importancefunctions, called a D-kernel, can be iteratively optimised to achieve the minimumasymptotic variance for a function of interest among...

In a regression model with univariate censored responses, a new estimatorof the joint distribution function of the covariates and response is proposed,under the assumption that the response and the censoring variable are independentconditionally to the covariates. This estimator is an extension...