The Family and the Dynamics of Personal Services

The birthplace of personal services, often seen as activities where peripheral jobs can be created, is the family. Home production is more and more tertiary, and deserves a better knowledge, as the shift between domestic, marketed, collective and associative services is important and reversible. The demographic and sociological evolution of the family, the increase of female working activity, the greater plurality of family types implies more diversified and less stanchrdised personal services. A kind of life cycle recourse to services can be observed and personal services of the future would be a patchwork of marketed, collective, associative and domestic services.     

LA LONGUE MARCHE VERS UN COMPTE SATELLITE DE L'ECONOMIE SOCIALE: UN BILAN A PARTIR DE L'EXPERIENCE FRANÇAISE

RESUME:  Après une présentation sommaire de l'histoire de l'économie sociale en France, l' article retrace l'origine du projet de compte satellite de l'économie sociale. Il montre ensuite que les coopératives, mutuelles, associations et fondations sont invisibles dans le cadre central les comptes nationaux. Dans un second temps, il se focalise sur le compte satellite des Institutions Sans But Lucratif préconisé par un Manuel des Nations unies, dont il présente la méthodologie adaptée à la France et les principaux résultats. La conclusion insiste sur la réflexion et les sources nouvelles nécessaires pour terminer un compte de l'économie sociale.     

The Beveridge curve and unemployment fluctuations in Canada

We estimate the impact of cyclical, sectoral, and participation shocks and that of the trend on both the Canadian unemployment rate and the job vacancy rate over the 1969 to 1998 period. We conclude that a rise in the Canadian unemployment rate of almost 5 percentage units occurred between 1972 and 1982 because of participation rate shocks and a trend movement. Because the trend also explains the leftward shift of the Beveridge curve observed in the 1990s, this shift cannot be interpreted as a decline in the natural unemployment rate.
La courbe de Beveridge et les fluctuations du chômage au Canada. Les auteurs évaluent la contribution des chocs sectoriels, des changements dans le taux d'activité, des fluctuations cycliques et de la tendance sur les mouvements du taux de chômage et du taux de postes vacants pendant la période 1969–98. Ils concluent que le taux de chômage non conjoncturel s'est accru de près de 5 points de pourcentage entre 1972 et 1982 en raison de chocs dans le taux d'activité et d'un mouvement tendanciel. Le déplacement vers la gauche de la courbe de Beveridge observé dans les années 1990 est pour sa part le résultat d'une baisse tendancielle des postes vacants et n'indique nullement que le taux de chômage naturel ait diminué pendant cette période.     

A multinational test of determinants of corporate disclosure

This paper develops a model of cultural, national, and corporate factors that influence the financial disclosure of corporations. This model is then tested empirically using a sample of companies from 33 countries. The paper extends the literature on disclosure by considering a larger number of variables that represent determinants of disclosure and by empirically testing the model using a larger number of countries than prior studies. The model is tested using disclosure scores included in International Accounting and Auditing Trends. The model considers the influence of culture, national political and economic systems, and corporate financial and operating systems on the amount of corporate financial disclosure. The results of the regression model indicate that disclosure is influenced by culture, national systems, and corporate systems. The model developed is shown to provide a reasonably good explanation of the disclosure decision. Differences among the components of the model help explain differences in observed financial disclosure between companies in different countries and between companies within the same country. The results indicate that the financial-disclosure decision for a company is complex and influenced by many national and corporate factors.