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The following research focuses on the perception of meritocracy and the support for an education-based meritocracy among individuals. The impact of education at both...

The issue of over-education (especially for graduate students) is a recurrent one, whose both political and scientific relevance is great. This note sets a state of...

To assess social inequalities in higher education often appears as a straightforward issue: as a routine and as at the previous levels of education, one compares the...

Fondée sur un travail de sociologie historique des institutions dédiées à la promotion de la cause des femmes dans l'Etat en France et au Québec, cette contribution...

This article gives insights into immigrants' incorporation into the French and British labor markets in the 1990s and the 2000s, using British and French Labor Force...

The European Constitutional Treaty (ECT) was presented by its drafters as an explicit constitution for the European Union (EU 25). A possible explanation for its...

The aim of this short paper is to devise policies to avoid that the present course of globalization becomes so unstable that it would lead to a general rejection in...

The European social and welfare models are questioned in the context of the internationalization of the economy. The situation is quite different in the US where the...

La hausse récente des prix immobiliers est préoccupante. Depuis le creux du marché immobilier en 1997, la hausse en termes réels a été supérieure à 70 %. Le spectre de...

Le tourisme est un secteur d'importance dans l'économie française. En 2004, la production de services de tourisme en France a été de 106 milliards d'euro soit plus de...

In this paper, we develop an analysis of the reasons for the apparent failure of the "Lisbon strategy" (2000) so far. After having made the general case for a...

The aim of this paper is to propose a theoretical connection between insurance and economic growth. We develop a simple model to insert microeconomically founded...

The purpose of this note is to compare the characteristics of the actual Stability and Growth Pact with that of a European "modified golden rule". The latter would...

This paper deals with Euro introduction and ask whether it is likely to increase the exchange rates volatility on a world-wide scale. Following this purpose, we...

Cet article s'intéresse à l'incidence fiscale particulière induite par la retraite par répartition. Il s'agit de comprendre comment les logiques de financement et de...

Under high inflation, money's dual function as a unit of account and a unit of payment are split and transferred on alternate supports--either a foreign currency (as...

This article addresses the question of the effects of cost setting on the kind of temporal patterns Optimal Matching (OM) can uncover when applied to social science...

Après plusieurs décennies de politiques de déségrégation raciale dans les écoles de la ville de Chicago, l'abandon formel en 2009 du critère racial comme principe...

On October 25th 2007 the Wall Street Journal published a blistering attack onEurope entitled Regulatory Imperialism. The editorial took issue with Europe'sintent to...

This paper attempts at providing a survey of the different models of individual decision making within the household. The first section reviews the traditional...