Christophe Jalil Nordman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 112647 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Christophe Jalil Nordman |
| NOMBRES | Christophe Jalil |
| APELLIDO | Nordman |
| FIRMA | NORDMAN C J |
| AFILIACIONES | French Institute of Pondicherry |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8368-4086 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
A Change is Gonna Come
Taking the case of rural South India, we explore the universality of the Big Five personality traits and their stability over time. We then investigate the effects of two exogenous shocks on trait stability: the demonetisation of November 2016 and the second COVID-19 lockdown. We use an original longitudinal dataset collected in 2016–2017 and 2020–2021. After correcting the data for acquiescence bias and performing factor analysis, we find that t…
Networks, Employment, Debt, Mobilities, and Skills in India Survey (Neemsis)
For money can’t buy me love? The political economy of marriages at the time of financialization
International audience
Psychology of Debt in Rural South India
This study is the first attempt to examine the extent to which the Big Five personality traits and cognitive skills (Raven scores, numeracy, and literacy scores) are correlated with debt negotiation and debt management in a Global South country; and how social identity – in particular caste and gender – channels the effect of cognition on debt outcomes. Using a panel dataset built from an original household survey (called NEEMSIS) conducted in 20…
Enquête Neemsis ( Networks, employment, debt, mobilities, and skills in India survey)
Which Skills Matter for What Type of Worker? Cognitive Skills, Personality Traits, Hiring Channels and Wages in Bangladesh
We use matched employer-employee data representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide descriptive evidence of both the relative importance of cognitive skills and personality traits in this part of the labour market and the interplay between skills and hiring channels in determining wages. While cognitive skills (literacy, a learning outcome) affect wages only by enabling workers to use formal hiring channels, they have no additional wage…
Here Comes the Rain Again
This study uses household-level panel data from a nationally representative survey to estimate the effect of agricultural productivity shocks—as proxied by exogenous annual rainfall deviations—on education expenditures and children’s work status in rural India. We find that a transitory increase in rainfall significantly reduces education expenditures and increases the likelihood of child labor across multiple work activities. Additionally, house…
With a Little Help from My Friends? Surviving the Lockdown Using Social Networks in Rural South India
How have rural populations in India mobilized their social networks in times of forced "social distancing"? Focusing on a rural region in Tamil Nadu, mixing Social Network Analysis, descriptive statistics and qualitative interviews conducted before the lockdown, during the lockdown and its aftermath, this paper shows that kinship ties and caste-based relationships are still used as inescapable economic resources, especially when it comes to survi…
You're all I need to get by? Analyzing young entrepreneurs’ networks in Morocco from a “quantified narratives” method
The gender of debt and credit
Many Rivers to Cross
This study analyzes whether individual skills and personality traits facilitate labor market mobility of disadvantaged groups and rural migrants. We use a panel dataset of individuals in rural South India to explore the relationship between individual cognitive skills, personality traits, and income mobility. We take advantage of intragroup heterogeneity in terms of cognitive skills and personality traits to examine whether these personal charact…
The Determinants of Trust
Household Entrepreneurship and Social Networks
Using a unique panel of household businesses for Vietnam, this paper sheds light on the links between households’ and entrepreneurs’ social networks and business performance. We address two related questions. The first question asks if we can find evidence of a differentiated effect of employment of members of the family versus hired workers on the business performance. A second question tackles the respective effects of various dimensions of soc…
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh
Wages and on-the-job training in Tunisia
Training costs may hamper intra-firm human capital accumulation. As a consequence, firms may be tempted to have workers pay for their on-the-job training (OJT). In this paper, we analyse the links of OJT and worker remuneration in the suburb of Tunis, using case study data for eight firms. We find that the duration of former OJT negatively influences starting wages, while there is no anticipated effect of future training on wages at the firm entr…
Education Mismatch and Return Migration in Egypt and Tunisia
The objective of this paper is to shed light on the issue of education mismatch in the context of return migration in Egypt and Tunisia. Using data on both return and non-migrants in Egypt and Tunisia, we analyze the skills that migrants acquire before and during migration and the way these skills are used upon return. We find evidence of education mismatch, especially in Tunisia. Finally, we estimate the determinants of education mismatch on the…
Informal versus Formal
Jeunes entrepreneurs et réseaux sociaux
La connaissance du rôle joué par les réseaux sociaux sur le marché du travail et de ses mécanismes sous-jacents a progressé ces dernières années. L’exploration approfondie des canaux de transmission des effets, positifs et négatifs, de ces liens, en particulier familiaux et de parenté, et de leurs effets de genre, a récemment ouvert des voies de recherche prometteuses aux économistes et aux sociologues. Cet article propose une revue sélective de …
Task organization, human capital, and wages in Moroccan exporting firms
Understanding the Links between Labour and Economic Development
Entreprenariat informel et genre à Madagascar
À partir d'un échantillon d'entrepreneurs informels à Antananarivo, nous mesurons et expliquons l'existence d'un écart de performance entre les entreprises dirigées par des hommes et des femmes. Nous étudions notamment l'impact des normes de partages au sein de la communauté et de la répartition des tâches au sein du ménage sur l'efficience technique des entreprises. Les entrepreneurs masculins sont sujets à la pression à la redistribution de la …
Who Suffers the Penalty
In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about the informal sector earnings structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the rich VHLSS dataset in Vietnam, in particular its three wave panel data (2002, 2004, 2006), we assess the magnitude of various formal–informal earnings gaps while addressing heterogeneity at three different levels: the worker, the job (wage employment vs. se…
Within-Firm Human Capital Externalities in Tunisia
This case study exploits matched firm–employee Tunisian data in order to underline the role played by within-firm human capital in worker remuneration. The estimated returns to human capital in wage equations remain unchanged when the dummies representing firm heterogeneity are replaced in the list of regressors with three firm variables: a textile industry dummy, within-firm mean education, and firm age. We find that part of what is usually cons…
Employment Vulnerability and Earnings in Urban West Africa
Reassessing the Gender Wage Gap in Madagascar
In the labor economics literature, it has been argued that differences in labor force attachment across gender are important to explain the extent of the gender wage gap. However, measures of women’s work experience are particularly prone to errors given discontinuity in labor market participation. Using proxy measures such as potential experience may lead to biased estimates of the returns to human capital. Such biases cannot be ignored since th…
Employment Vulnerability and Earnings in Urban West Africa
The gender of debt and credit
Informal versus Formal
With a Little Help from My Friends? Surviving the Lockdown Using Social Networks in Rural South India
How have rural populations in India mobilized their social networks in times of forced "social distancing"? Focusing on a rural region in Tamil Nadu, mixing Social Network Analysis, descriptive statistics and qualitative interviews conducted before the lockdown, during the lockdown and its aftermath, this paper shows that kinship ties and caste-based relationships are still used as inescapable economic resources, especially when it comes to survi…
Understanding the Links between Labour and Economic Development
Many Rivers to Cross
This study analyzes whether individual skills and personality traits facilitate labor market mobility of disadvantaged groups and rural migrants. We use a panel dataset of individuals in rural South India to explore the relationship between individual cognitive skills, personality traits, and income mobility. We take advantage of intragroup heterogeneity in terms of cognitive skills and personality traits to examine whether these personal charact…
Reassessing the Gender Wage Gap in Madagascar
In the labor economics literature, it has been argued that differences in labor force attachment across gender are important to explain the extent of the gender wage gap. However, measures of women’s work experience are particularly prone to errors given discontinuity in labor market participation. Using proxy measures such as potential experience may lead to biased estimates of the returns to human capital. Such biases cannot be ignored since th…
Psychology of Debt in Rural South India
This study is the first attempt to examine the extent to which the Big Five personality traits and cognitive skills (Raven scores, numeracy, and literacy scores) are correlated with debt negotiation and debt management in a Global South country; and how social identity – in particular caste and gender – channels the effect of cognition on debt outcomes. Using a panel dataset built from an original household survey (called NEEMSIS) conducted in 20…
Entreprenariat informel et genre à Madagascar
À partir d'un échantillon d'entrepreneurs informels à Antananarivo, nous mesurons et expliquons l'existence d'un écart de performance entre les entreprises dirigées par des hommes et des femmes. Nous étudions notamment l'impact des normes de partages au sein de la communauté et de la répartition des tâches au sein du ménage sur l'efficience technique des entreprises. Les entrepreneurs masculins sont sujets à la pression à la redistribution de la …
Diffusion du capital humain et effets d'entreprise
Cet article propose une estimation, sur des données appariées marocaines et tunisiennes, des effets externes du capital humain sur les gains et des différentiels de gains interentreprises. Les données permettent d’introduire dans une fonction de gains les facteurs organisationnels et le capital humain moyen des entreprises. Les résultats montrent que le travail en groupe et la polyvalence stimulent l’externalité positive de l’éducation sur les ga…
Diffusion du capital humain et effets d'entreprise. Approche par frontière de gains sur données appariées marocaines et tunisiennes
Nordman Christophe. Diffusion du capital humain et effets d'entreprise. Approche par frontière de gains sur données appariées marocaines et tunisiennes. In: Revue économique, volume 53, n°3, 2002. pp. 647-658
Diffusion du capital humain
Reassessing the Gender Wage Gap in Madagascar
In the labor economics literature, it has been argued that differences in labor force attachment across gender are important to explain the extent of the gender wage gap. However, measures of women’s work experience are particularly prone to errors given discontinuity in labor market participation. Using proxy measures such as potential experience may lead to biased estimates of the returns to human capital. Such biases cannot be ignored since th…
Employment Vulnerability and Earnings in Urban West Africa
Within-Firm Human Capital Externalities in Tunisia
This case study exploits matched firm–employee Tunisian data in order to underline the role played by within-firm human capital in worker remuneration. The estimated returns to human capital in wage equations remain unchanged when the dummies representing firm heterogeneity are replaced in the list of regressors with three firm variables: a textile industry dummy, within-firm mean education, and firm age. We find that part of what is usually cons…
Who Suffers the Penalty
In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about the informal sector earnings structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the rich VHLSS dataset in Vietnam, in particular its three wave panel data (2002, 2004, 2006), we assess the magnitude of various formal–informal earnings gaps while addressing heterogeneity at three different levels: the worker, the job (wage employment vs. se…
Task organization, human capital, and wages in Moroccan exporting firms
Understanding the Links between Labour and Economic Development
Entreprenariat informel et genre à Madagascar
À partir d'un échantillon d'entrepreneurs informels à Antananarivo, nous mesurons et expliquons l'existence d'un écart de performance entre les entreprises dirigées par des hommes et des femmes. Nous étudions notamment l'impact des normes de partages au sein de la communauté et de la répartition des tâches au sein du ménage sur l'efficience technique des entreprises. Les entrepreneurs masculins sont sujets à la pression à la redistribution de la …
Jeunes entrepreneurs et réseaux sociaux
La connaissance du rôle joué par les réseaux sociaux sur le marché du travail et de ses mécanismes sous-jacents a progressé ces dernières années. L’exploration approfondie des canaux de transmission des effets, positifs et négatifs, de ces liens, en particulier familiaux et de parenté, et de leurs effets de genre, a récemment ouvert des voies de recherche prometteuses aux économistes et aux sociologues. Cet article propose une revue sélective de …
Informal versus Formal
Wages and on-the-job training in Tunisia
Training costs may hamper intra-firm human capital accumulation. As a consequence, firms may be tempted to have workers pay for their on-the-job training (OJT). In this paper, we analyse the links of OJT and worker remuneration in the suburb of Tunis, using case study data for eight firms. We find that the duration of former OJT negatively influences starting wages, while there is no anticipated effect of future training on wages at the firm entr…
Education Mismatch and Return Migration in Egypt and Tunisia
The objective of this paper is to shed light on the issue of education mismatch in the context of return migration in Egypt and Tunisia. Using data on both return and non-migrants in Egypt and Tunisia, we analyze the skills that migrants acquire before and during migration and the way these skills are used upon return. We find evidence of education mismatch, especially in Tunisia. Finally, we estimate the determinants of education mismatch on the…
Household Entrepreneurship and Social Networks
Using a unique panel of household businesses for Vietnam, this paper sheds light on the links between households’ and entrepreneurs’ social networks and business performance. We address two related questions. The first question asks if we can find evidence of a differentiated effect of employment of members of the family versus hired workers on the business performance. A second question tackles the respective effects of various dimensions of soc…
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh
The Determinants of Trust
You're all I need to get by? Analyzing young entrepreneurs’ networks in Morocco from a “quantified narratives” method
The gender of debt and credit
Many Rivers to Cross
This study analyzes whether individual skills and personality traits facilitate labor market mobility of disadvantaged groups and rural migrants. We use a panel dataset of individuals in rural South India to explore the relationship between individual cognitive skills, personality traits, and income mobility. We take advantage of intragroup heterogeneity in terms of cognitive skills and personality traits to examine whether these personal charact…
Which Skills Matter for What Type of Worker? Cognitive Skills, Personality Traits, Hiring Channels and Wages in Bangladesh
We use matched employer-employee data representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide descriptive evidence of both the relative importance of cognitive skills and personality traits in this part of the labour market and the interplay between skills and hiring channels in determining wages. While cognitive skills (literacy, a learning outcome) affect wages only by enabling workers to use formal hiring channels, they have no additional wage…
Here Comes the Rain Again
This study uses household-level panel data from a nationally representative survey to estimate the effect of agricultural productivity shocks—as proxied by exogenous annual rainfall deviations—on education expenditures and children’s work status in rural India. We find that a transitory increase in rainfall significantly reduces education expenditures and increases the likelihood of child labor across multiple work activities. Additionally, house…
With a Little Help from My Friends? Surviving the Lockdown Using Social Networks in Rural South India
How have rural populations in India mobilized their social networks in times of forced "social distancing"? Focusing on a rural region in Tamil Nadu, mixing Social Network Analysis, descriptive statistics and qualitative interviews conducted before the lockdown, during the lockdown and its aftermath, this paper shows that kinship ties and caste-based relationships are still used as inescapable economic resources, especially when it comes to survi…
Networks, Employment, Debt, Mobilities, and Skills in India Survey (Neemsis)
For money can’t buy me love? The political economy of marriages at the time of financialization
International audience
Economics (17 obras) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (11 obras) · Labour economics (11 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Economic growth (8 obras) · Taxation and Compliance Studies (8 obras) · Demographic economics (7 obras) · Business (6 obras) · Wage (6 obras) · Earnings (5 obras)