This work aims at estimating the gender pay gap within the French ministries. For a long time people considered that, because of the sophisticated organization of the French public service, its mode of recruiting and promoting (through competitive exams and precise career ladder) and its way of...

This article analyses the influence of trust on the functioning of a market for perishable goods, where there exists no quality signal and quantities can be scarce. On this market, agents can choose between bidding or exchanging through bilateral transactions. It is well accepted in economy that...

This paper presents an overview of how agent-based computational economics (ACE) can contribute to the study of economic systems both at the macro and the micro level. It highlights the way these models can improve our understanding of social interactions and coordination mechanisms and bring...

French youth suffer from a high level of unemployment. This article evaluates how different social and individual characteristics influence job access channels.We distinguish between school and social networks and show that workers use networks differently depending on their characteristics....

The question of efficiency of market organization is an important one in economics. When theoretical results suggest the dominance of auctions, empirical studies present more mitigated results putting forward that the global efficiency depends on agents' characteristics and market environment....