En France, de nombreuses études ont mis en évidence la présence de jeunes employés suréduqués sur le marché du travail. En utilisant les enquêtes du Céreq, sur les sortants de l’enseignement supérieur en 1984 et 1996, nous analysons l’évolution des déterminants et de...

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...

W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth...

Nous analysons les contributions des débordements géographiques de connaissance sur l’activité innovante et le processus de convergence des régions européennes sur la période 1981-2001. L’application des outils de l’économétrie spatiale (ANSELIN, 1988) à la distribution des...

In this paper, we analyze a bidimensional quality competition between two higher education sectors characterised by different preferences (academic vs. vocational) as well as cost structures, and its impact on curriculum’s provision (type and quality), both in decentralised and social welfare...

Dans de nombreux pays, le système d’enseignement supérieur, comme le système économique, a connu des phases d’expansion suivies de périodes de stagnation ou de baisse. Aussi, la possibilité d’une liaison entre les deux systèmes a souvent été avancée. Pour Diebolt (2001), ces...

Most empirical knowledge on the long term performance of financial investments is derived from the behaviour of the most successful markets. Recent research has tried to broaden the sample of markets studied towards European ones, many of which were among the worlds’ most developed up to World...

One of the main objectives of the growth-accounting is to study the countries' convergence. In this paper, we proposed a new approach, based on Stochastic Production Frontiers (SPF), to appraise the catch-up of OECD countries. The main advantage of our method is to decompose efficiency scores of...

La rationalité des opérateurs et les informations diffusées sur le marché sont au cœur de la théorie de l’efficience informationnelle des marchés financiers. Les marchés de l’or n’échappent pas à cette règle générale. Etant un actif très particulier et très différent des...

The endogenous growth literature has explored the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages, living standards and labor productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in modern industrial growth breaks that link. Recently,...