This thesis is serves to examine the refugee policies in Tanzania and Uganda and how they have affected refugee participation in their labor market economies. I focused on two developing nations because much of refugee discourse revolves around the global north, leaving developing nations out of the conversation. This gap in discourse inspired this topic in hopes of encouraging more scholarly contributions. Considering the economic impact of refugees provides an empirical approach to humanitarian issues exposing the overlap between politics, economics, and humanity.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T18:33:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rafaela M G Carnevale.pdf: 6422875 bytes, checksum: 7d6d65a2bbc6bbb7c8164d03c6a1317a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The purpose of this research is to identify and analyze the variables that affect the level of employment and the labor market in the Parana municipalities. As methodology, it was used the panel data model and two indicators: i) the Location Quotient (LQ) which indicated that the branches of activities to show representative in the municipalities for the variables employment, wage and education; ii) Pearson Correlation Coefficient, which from the LQ calculation showed the correlation between the three variables. The results of the econometric model showed that the variable that most positively affects the level of employment in the State of Parana is the value added at basic prices of services, while other variables showed negative impact, such as: education, per capita GDP and population, which confirms in part the economic theory approached by research. The tertiary sector is the most employs, which pays the highest average wages and also the one with more education in the state in 2002, 2007 and 2012, and the primary sector is the one that presented fewer formal employees, lower average wage and lower education sector, however it has many specialized municipalities in generating employment and average wage. Finally, the correlation between the variables showed that most municipalities are located in the scale negative correlation between the variables, but this number has been decreasing, and in 2012 the correlation between wage and education has more municipalities with positive correlation. The correlation between employment and education is the one that has more municipalities with negative coefficient, that is, in these municipalities the sectors that employ most do not seek high education, at last, the correlation between average wage and average education shows that most municipal districts that pay higher wages are those that require more education. / O objetivo desta pesquisa é identificar e analisar as variáveis que afetam o nível de emprego e o mercado de trabalho nos municípios paranaenses. Como metodologia utilizou-se o modelo de dados em painel e dois indicadores: i) o Quociente Locacional (QL) que indicou quais os ramos de atividades se mostram representativos nos municípios para as variáveis emprego, salário e escolaridade; ii) Coeficiente de Correlação de Pearson, que a partir do cálculo do QL apresentou a correlação existente entre as três variáveis analisadas. O resultado do modelo econométrico apontou que a variável que mais afeta positivamente o nível de emprego no Estado do Paraná é o valor adicionado a preços básicos dos serviços, enquanto apresentaram impacto negativo as variáveis escolaridade, PIB per capita e população. O setor terciário é o que mais emprega, o que paga os maiores salários médios e ainda o que apresenta maior escolaridade no estado nos anos de 2002, 2007 e 2012 e o setor primário é o que apresentou menor número de empregados formais, menor remuneração média e menor escolaridade setorial, no entanto é o que mais apresenta municípios especializados em geração de emprego e salário médio. Por fim, a correlação entre as variáveis apontou que a maioria dos municípios encontram-se na escala de correlação negativa entre as variáveis, mas este número vem se reduzindo, sendo que em 2012 a correlação entre salário e escolaridade possui mais municípios com correlação positiva, isto indica que nos municípios paranaenses, os ramos de atividade que mais empregam são aqueles que pagam os menores salários e que estes mesmo ramos demandam as menores escolaridades, enquanto os ramos de atividades que pagam os melhores salários são também os que demandam maior qualificação, em termos de escolaridade dos trabalhadores.

Des logiciels Open Source à Wikipédia, la production par les pairs mobilise des centaines de milliers de contributeurs de par le monde. C’est une source importante de création de valeur dans les secteurs très compétitifs de l’information et de la technologie, ainsi qu’une source majeure d’innovation. Au-delà même de son importance économique, l’émergence de la production par les pairs représente une opportunité d’éclairer un certain nombre de questions anciennes et particulièrement ardues dans la littérature d’un jour nouveau. Compte-tenu de la nature souvent non conventionnelle des incitations au travail dans les environnements de production par les pairs, ceux-ci sont particulièrement adaptés à l’étude de l’impact des préférences économiques non standard sur la production de biens publics, à l’analyse de leur rôle en tant que motivations au travail, ainsi qu’à l’évaluation de leurs conséquences en termes d’économie organisationnelle.Ce travail de thèse s'appuie sur un outil d’expérimentation en ligne original (développé et évalué dans le chapitre 1) pour combiner expériences en ligne à large échelle et méthodes computationnelles (i.e. l’extraction systématique de données sur le comportement de terrain des sujets) afin de (i) mener le tout premier test de terrain exhaustif de la théorie de la production privée de biens publics, (ii) étudier l’importance des préférences sociales en tant que motivations au travail au sein d’organisations productives réelles et (iii) procéder aux premiers tests de terrain documentant des comportements endogènes d’appariement des agents économiques au sein d’équipes productives en fonction de leur type coopératif. / From Open Source Software to Wikipedia, peer production involves hundreds of thousands of contributors worldwide. It is an important source of value creation in the most competitive sectors of information and technology, as well as a major source of innovation. Beyond its economic significance, the emergence of peer production also represents an opportunity to shed new lights on a number of longstanding but notably difficult questions in the literature. Given the unconventional nature of many of the work incentives at play in peer production environments, those are particularly well suited for researching the impact of non standard economic preferences on public goods provision, studying their role as work incentives, and assessing their consequences in terms of organizational economics.This Ph.D. work leverages a novel online experimentation tool (developed and assessed in Chapter 1) to combine large-scale online experiments and computational methods (i.e. the systematic extraction of data on subjects’ field behavior) to respectively (i) provide the first comprehensive field test of the theory of the private provision of public goods, (ii) study the importance of social preferences as work motives within real-world productive organizations and(iii) report the first field evidence of endogenous sorting behavior of economic agents within productive teams based on their cooperative types.

L'idée de base des contrats incitatifs est celle de la réalisation d'intérêts communs provoquant des changements dans le comportement des salariés et l'amélioration de la performance de l'entreprise. Les résultats et les succès de l'entreprise dépendent également du climat des relations professionnelles. Dans ce contexte, l'objectif de cette thèse est de contribuer à la compréhension de la participation financière (l'intéressement et l'actionnariat salarié) et ses liens avec les conflits à partir de données d'entreprises françaises. La recherche sur ces deux thèmes est d'une importance pratique et novatrice. Tout d'abord, il existe au sein de l'entreprise une multitude de types de conflits. Nous nous intéressons principalement aux conflits collectifs. Ensuite, la plupart des études sur les conflits collectifs se concentre uniquement sur les grèves, en ignorant les autres formes d'actions collectives, et très peu d'études font le lien avec les systèmes d'incitations collectives au sein de l'entreprise. Ainsi, ce travail se décompose en quatre études empiriques. La première vise à analyser les différentes formes de conflits au sein de l'entreprise. La deuxième analyse l'effet de la participation financière sur les conflits collectifs. La troisième étude s'intéresse à l'impact de la négociation et de la participation financière sur la résolution des conflits collectifs. Enfin, la dernière examine la performance des entreprises en fonction de la participation financière et des conflits collectifs. Nos recherches reposent sur des outils d'analyse multidimensionnelle et économétriques. L'approche multidimensionnelle fait appel à l'Analyse des Correspondances Multiples et à la Classification Hiérarchique Ascendante.L'approche économétrique fait usage de méthodes d'estimations classiques (OLS,Probit Simple, Probit Multinomial, Probit Ordonné), de modèles à sélection (Heckman), et des techniques d'estimations de modèles récursifs à équations simultanées traitant ainsi les problèmes d'endogénéité et la mixture (quantitative et qualitative) des variables dépendantes (Roodman, Conditional Mixed Process). / The basic idea of incentive contracts is that of achieving common interests causing changes in the behavior of employees and improving firm performance.The firms' outputs and success also depend on the industrial relation climate. In this context, the aim of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding offinancial participation (profit sharing and employee share ownership) and its links with the conflicts using data on French firms. Research on these topics isinnovative and highly recommended. First, there exists within the firm a multitude of types of conflicts. We are primarily concerned with collective conflicts. Most of studies on collective conflicts focuses only on strikes, ignoring other forms of collective actions. Very few studies make the link between collective incentive schemes and collective conflicts. Thus, this work is dividedinto four empirical studies. The first one analyzes the different forms of conflicts within the firm. The second one analyzes the effect of financial participation on collective conflicts. The third study focuses on the impact of bargaining and financial participation on the resolution of collective conflicts. The last one examines firm's performance based on financial participation and collective conflicts. Our research is based on multidimensional analysis and econometric tools. The multidimensional approach uses the Multiple Correspondence Analysis and Ascending Hierarchical Clustering. The econometric approach usesclassical estimation methods (OLS, Probit, Mutinomial Probit, Ordered Pobit),selection models (Heckman), and methods estimating simultaneous and recursive equations, treating the endogeneity problems and the mixture (quantitative and qualitative) of the dependent variables (Roodman, Conditional Mixed Process).

In recent years, industrial preservation policies, which aim to preserve urban industrial activity and industrial employment often through the preservation of industrial land, have emerged as a flashpoint in cities across the country that have implemented these policies. While critics contend that industrial preservation policies amount to smokestack chasing in “post-industrial” cities like New York City, industrial preservationists argue that such policies help to preserve well-paying, middle-class jobs and thus represent a tool to mitigate rising income inequalities in cities. Despite considerable attention to these policies, minimal research has evaluated the effectiveness of industrial preservation policies as land use and economic development planning tools. This paper inserts itself into the debate surrounding the utility of industrial preservation policies by evaluating the effectiveness of New York City’s 2006 Industrial Business Zone (IBZ) program. Specifically, this paper uses propensity scoring to evaluate various measures of urban industrial activity in designated IBZs compared to a control group of similar areas. This paper finds that IBZs outperformed the control group in terms of better stemming industrial employment losses and industrial land decline. The control group, however, provided a more favorable climate to industrial business starts and performed about the same as IBZs in encouraging capital investments in industrial infrastructure. These findings suggest that the IBZ program yielded mixed results in its efforts to both attract and retain urban industry.

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Le premier chapitre dresse un état des lieux de la littérature relative l’activité partielle et introduit les trois questions de recherche développées dans cette thèse, à savoir la diffusion locale du recours à l’activité partielle en France au cours de la période2003-2014, l’effet de l’activité partielle sur l’emploi en France au cours de la Grande Récession 2008-2009 et l’effet des réformes de 2012-2013 de l’activité partielle et du recours récurrent à ce dispositif sur la production agrégée en France. Dans le second chapitre, nous mettons en lumière la diffusion locale du recours à l’activité partielle en France sur la période 2003-2014. Pour ce faire, nous évaluons l’effet de la proximité géographique d’établissements ayant déjà recouru à l’activité partielle par le passé sur le recours à l’activité partielle d’un établissement pour la première fois sur la période 2003-2014. En effet, nous soutenons que l’information dont disposent les établissements au sujet du dispositif et de sa procédure, notamment par le biais des établissements voisins, constitue un déterminant essentiel du recours à l’activité partielle. Nos faits stylisés révèlent que le recours à l’activité partielle est concentré au niveau géographique et que cette concentration revêt un caractère dynamique. Nous utilisons comme mesure de la diffusion locale de l’information relative à l’activité partielle un indice de concentration spatiale (fondé sur les distances inter-établissements) et prenons en compte les autres caractéristiques des établissements afin de distinguer l’effet de cette transmission d’information d’autres déterminants du recours au dispositif et ainsi mettre en évidence son impact sur le recours à l’activité partielle d’un établissement pour la première fois. Nos résultats montrent l’importance de la diffusion locale de l’information relative à l’activité partielle, que cette diffusion décroît dans les premiers kilomètres et que cette information transite à la fois au sein d’un secteur donné et entre secteurs.Dans le troisième chapitre, nous évaluons l’effet de l’activité partielle sur l’emploi en France an cours de la Grande Récession 2008-2009. Nous développons un modèle théorique suivant lequel l’effet de l’activité partielle varie selon la situation financière des entreprises. Pour des entreprises faisant face à une forte diminution de leur chiffre d’affaires, l’activité partielle permet de sauvegarder l’emploi, tandis que pour des entreprises dont la réduction du chiffre d’affaires est modérée, l’activité partielle entraîne une diminution des heures travaillées sans pour autant préserver l’emploi. Ces effets théoriques contrastés sont confirmés par nos résultats empiriques, qui mettent en évidence que l’activité partielle a réduit le nombre d’emplois détruits uniquement en cas de réduction importante du chiffre d’affaires mais n’a eu aucun effet significatif sur l’emploi pour les autres entreprises, qui représentent environ 40 % des utilisateurs de l’activité partielle. Ces effets d’aubaine, bien que considérables au regard du dispositif d’activité partielle, demeurent négligeables par rapport à d’autres mesures telles que les subventions salariales et à l’embauche. De plus, l’activité partielle n’a pas contribué à maintenir en vie des entreprises en difficultés structurelles. L’activité partielle a donc constitué un dispositif efficace à la sauvegarde de l’emploi en France au cours de la Grande Récession 2008-2009. / The literature review on short-time work presented in the first chapter underlines the motivation behind the three research questions developed in this dissertation, namely the local diffusion of short-time work, the impact of short-time work on employment during the great 2008-2009 recession in France, and the impact of the 2012-2013 reforms of short-time work and its recurrent use on aggregate production in France.In the second chapter, we assess the local diffusion of short-time work. We argue that the geographical proximity of establishments having already used short-time work in the past is a major information channel regarding this scheme. Relying on distance-based methods, our stylized facts highlight the spatial and dynamic concentration of short-time work use in France between 2002 and 2014. Our econometric analysis reveals that the local information about short-timework constitutes a determinant of its use, that it attenuates rapidly in the first kilometers and that this information is both transmitted within and between sectors. We interpret this significant spatial concentration of short-time use,after controlling for the determinants of short-time work at the establishment level, as an evidence of information spillovers.In the third chapter, we estimate the impact of short-time work on employment during the great 2008-2009 recession in France.The model we develop shows that the effect of short-time work varies depending on the financial situation of the firms. For firms facing a strong decline in their revenue, short-time work saves employment, whereas for firms facing a moderate decline in their revenue, short-time work entails a drop in hours worked without reducing job losses. These heterogeneous effects are confirmed by our empirical results, which demonstrate that short-time work has reduced the number of job losses for firms which faced dramatic drop in their revenue, but has had no significant impact on employment for the other firms. These windfall effects, although sizeable within the short-time workscheme, are negligible compared to other policies such as wage and hiring subsidies. Additionally, short-time work didn’t help structurally weak firms to survive. Hence, short-time work has been an efficient policy to save jobs during the great 2008-2009recession in France.In the fourth chapter, we evaluate the impact of the 2012-2013reforms of short-time work and its recurrent use on aggregate production in France. The 2012-2013 reforms have increased the generosity of short-time work and hence have suppressed the remaining cost supported by the firm. Our stylized facts highlight that short-time work is essentially used by a small number of firms in a recurrent way and this repeated use has aggravated following these reforms. The theoretical model we develop shows that such reforms of short-time work have entailed cross subsidies towards recurrent short-time work users and have reduced aggregate production compared to the social optimum.According to our model, the efficient policy should provide unemployment insurance benefits funded by experience rated employers’ contributions instead of short-time work benefits.

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