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...

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...

La problématique de la création d'entreprises et ses rapports au territoire intéresse l'économie régionale depuis plus de vingt ans. Un argumentaire explicatif s'est progressivement construit, sollicitant l'apport de l'économie du travail, de l'économie industrielle et de l'économie...

Les interrogations sur la soutenabilité du business modèle de production et consommation des produits de luxe a fait l'objet des plusieurs travaux de recherche mais aussi des approches pragmatiques des professionnels des plus grands marques de luxe en France. Celles - ci ont décidé de créer...

L'effervescence dans les sciences économiques et sociales autour de l'élaboration d'indicateurs complexes du bien-être, alternatifs aux indicateurs de richesse dits classiques tel que le Produit Intérieur Brut (PIB) par habitant, implique le développement parallèle d'outils pour la...

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'histoire de la constitution de la technopole Île-de-France sud, l'organisation du système d'innovation francilien, sont rappelés dans ce rapport qui est centré sur l'émergence et le fonctionnement d'un nouveau pôle dans une région métropolitaine, le pôle optronique de l'Île-de-France...