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Does Retirement Make you Happy? A Simultaneous Equations Approach (2017). Insights in the Economics of Aging, edited by David A. Wise. University of Chicago Press. NBER Book Series.

Financial markets and firm size: The role of employment protection laws and barriers to entrepreneurship (2017). Applied Economics, vol. 49 (26), pages 2515-2531.

This article provides evidence on the institutional determinants of firm size for the period 1980–1998. Using a comprehensive longitudinal database across 29 industrial sectors in 15 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) …

Les déterminants du travail autonome au Québec et au Canada (1993-2010) (2016). L’actualité économique, vol. 92(3).

This paper studies the determinants of self-employment in Québec and in the rest of Canada by focusing on liquidity constraints, age and aggregate unemployment. We use a random effects probit model to analyse panel data from the Survey of Labour and …

Self-employment, Health Insurance, and Return Migration of Middle-Aged and Elderly Mexican Males (2015). Hispanics in the Americas: How do we plan for a aging population in the U.S. and Mexico. Edited by William Vega, Kyriakos Markides, Jacqueline Angel, and Fernando Torres-Gil, Springer Science: New York.

A Longitudinal Study of Well-Being of Older Europeans: Does Retirement Matter? (2014). Journal of Population Ageing: Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 21-41.

We examine determinants of financial and subjective well-being, in particular poverty and depression, among older individuals in Europe. We do so using the 2004, 2006, and 2010 waves of the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe and …

Financial and Subjective Well-being of Older Europeans (2013). Ch. 12 in Ed. by Börsch-Supan, Axel, Brandt, Martina, Litwin, Howard and Weber, Guglielmo (eds.), Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations in Europe. First Results from SHARE after the Economic Crisis.

A Health Production Model with Endogenous Retirement (2013). Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 22(8), pages 883-902.

We formulate a stylized structural model of health, wealth accumulation and retirement decisions building on the human capital framework of health and derive analytic solutions for the time paths of consumption, health, health investment, savings and …

Les dépenses de santé, la santé et la longévité (2012). In Jean Poirier and Sylvie Rheault (Eds.) Actes de Colloque: Vieillissement ACFAS 2012 Institut de la Statistique du Québec.

Spanish Unemployment and Beveridge Curve shifts (2012). Ch. 5, in Samir Amine (Ed.), Labor Markets: Dynamics, Trends and Economic Impact, Nova Science Publishers.

What Explains the Gender Gap in Financial Literacy? The Role of Household Decision Making (2012). Journal of Consumer Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(1), pages 90-106, 03.

Using newly collected data from the RAND American Life Panel, we examine potential explanations for the gender gap in financial literacy, including the role of marriage and who within a couple makes the financial decisions. Blinder–Oaxaca …