Using data from rural communities in which ethnic heterogeneity was induced within through involuntary resettlements policies in the 1960s, we estimate the exogenous effect of ethnic heterogeneity on individual participation in local organizations and households’ social network capital. The...

Background: Even if health status of immigrants constitutes an important public health issue, the literature provides contradictory results on the existence of a ‘healthy migrant’ effect in Europe. This study proposes to explore the heterogeneity of the health gap between migrants and...

This paper explores the link between return migration and political outcomes in the origin country, using the case study of Mali. We use electoral and census data at the locality level to investigate the role of return migration on participation rates and electoral competitiveness. First, we run...

Tunisia signed in 1995 an agreement with the European Union, stipulating that free trade has to be achieved after a twelve year transitory period, in all sectors except agriculture. The aim of this study is to evaluate the consequences of that process on wage distribution among socioeconomic...

L’article cherche à expliciter empiriquement les déterminants du respect des normes de travail fondamentales et plus précisément à identifier le rôle joué par le niveau de développement. Le degré de respect de ces normes est évalué par un indicateur original, construit sur un...

Turkey featured a somewhat paradoxical evolution in income distribution between 1994 and 2005. During 1994-2002 (marked by the 2000-2001 financial crisis), growth was pro-poor in the sense that the income of the poor decreased less than the income of the well-off. Between 2002 and 2005, the...