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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...
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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...
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La problématique de cet article est l'étude des réseaux de relations sociales des membres du conseil d'administration (CA) ainsi que de leur utilisation dans l'acquisition de ressources par la firme. Pour ce faire, une étude de cas a été réalisée. D'après les résultats, les membres du...
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Dans une première partie, nous développons l'hypothèse selon laquelle l'internationalisation de la R&D des firmes peut se comprendre comme un moyen de partager des connaissances tacites au sein de réseaux fondés sur une proximité située. Nous montrons de quelle manière une telle...
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L'internationalisation de la R&D des firmes est considérée aujourd'hui comme une stratégie destinée à accroître les connaissances des grandes firmes dans un espace cognitif mondial fortement polarisé. Deux questions principales se présentent qui constituent les deux objets...
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Quelles représentations les films véhiculent-ils du "monde des affaires" dont ils sont, en tant que produits industriels, eux-mêmes issus ? Quelle est la nature et quels sont les enjeux d'une représentation qui apparaît singulièrement critique ? A travers l'analyse comparative de 43...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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