L'industrie pétrolière russe est depuis le début des années 1990 marquée par d'importants mouvements de réforme de son modèle organisationnel. La montée en puissance de l'Etat au sein de l'industrie est le facteur le plus souvent mentionné pour caractériser les évolutions en cours....

Should education become more vocational or more general? We address this question in two steps. We first build and solve a two-sector matching model with generalists and specialists. Generalists pursue jobs in both sectors; however, they come second in job queues. Specialists seek for jobs in a...

L'année 1992 est inscrite dans l'histoire de la Russie comme le passage définitif d'une économie planifiée à une économie de marché suivi de changements politiques et économiques fondamentaux. Il s'agit, à partir d'une enquête, réalisée auprès de 16 grandes entreprises russes,...

What is the knowledge needed to allow an industrial merge in a very poor area: that is the question of the paper. The paper look what is the experience and education of bosses and workers participating the first generation of private owned industry in a non industrial area that became the world...

This paper aims at explaining why countries with comparable levels of education still experience notable differences in terms of R&D and innovation. High-skilled migration, ultimately linked to differences in R&D costs, might be responsible for the persistence of such a gap. In fact, in a model...

This article aims at investigating the interplay between environmental quality, health and development. We consider an OLG model, where human capital dynamics depend on the current environment, through its impact on children's school attendance. In turn, environmental quality dynamics depend on...

Following Ben-Porath (1967), the influence of life expectancy on education has attracted much attention. Whereas existing growth models rely on an education decision made either by the child or by his parent, we revisit the Ben-Porath effect when the education is the outcome of a bargaining...

We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There are many potential channels for this effect, although, as usual, identifying a causal relationship is difficult. We appeal to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map...

L'éducation constitue l'un des axes fondamentaux du projet de développement socialiste cubain et l'un des moyens d'atteindre l'objectif d'égalité. Le système éducatif y a pour finalité de remettre en cause la division capitaliste du travail, et la division sociale qui en découle. Les...

This paper contributes to the understanding of poverty determinants in Russia. We analysed two methods of poverty measurement: the monetary one in absolute terms and the self-rated subjective measure. We compare these two approaches in order to understand the main differences between being poor...