Conflits intergénérationnels au sein de familles immigrantes: L'expérience d'une approche de médiation familiale et interculturelle dans un contexte de protection de la jeunesse

Essai présenté à la Faculté des arts et des sciences en vue de l’obtention du grade de Maîtrise en service social

How Important Are Intergenerational Transfers of Time? a Macroeconomic Analysis.

This paper examines the implications of intergenerational transfers of time and money for labor supply and capital accumulation. Although intergenerational transfers of time in the form of grandparenting are as substantial as monetary transfers in the data, little is known about the role and importance of time transfers. In this paper, we calibrate an overlapping generations model extended to allow for both time and monetary transfers to the US economy. We use simulations to show that time transfers have important positive effects on capital accumulation and that these effects can be as significant as those of monetary transfers. However, while time transfers increase the labor supply of the young, monetary transfers produce an income effect that tends to decrease work effort. We also find that child care tax credits have little impact on parental time and money transfers, but that a universal child tax credit would increase the welfare of the rich while the poor would benefit from a means-tested program.

Upper Semicontinuous Extensions of Binary Relations.

Suzumura shows that a binary relation has a weak order extension if and only if it is consistent. However, consistency is demonstrably not sufficient to extend an upper semi-continuous binary relation to an upper semicontinuous weak order. Jaffray proves that any asymmetric (or reflexive), transitive and upper semicontinuous binary relation has an upper semicontinuous strict (or weak) order extension. We provide sufficient conditions for existence of upper semicontinuous extensions of consistence rather than transitive relations. For asymmetric relations, consistency and upper semicontinuity suffice. For more general relations, we prove one theorem using a further consistency property and another with an additional continuity requirement.

Altruism, Intergenerational Transfers of Time and Bequests

This paper uses a standard two-period overlapping generation model to examine the behavior of an economy where both intergenerational transfers of time and bequests are available. While bequests have been examined extensively, time transfers have received little or no attention in the literature. Assuming a log-linear utility function and a Cobb-Douglas production function, we derive an explicit solution for the dynamics and show that altruistic intergenerational time transfers can take place in presence of a binding non-negativity constraint on bequests. We also show that with either type of transfers capital is an increasing function of the intergenerational degree of altruism. However, while with time transfers the labor supply of the young increases with the degree of altruism, with bequests it may decrease

Consistent Relations

Consistency, a natural weakening of transitivity introduced in a seminal contribution by Suzumura (1976b), has turned out to be an interesting and promising concept in a variety of areas within economic theory. This paper summarizes its recent applications and provides some new observations in welfarist social choice and in population ethics. In particular, it is shown that the conclusion of the welfarism theorem remains true if transitivity is replaced by consistency and that an impossibility result in variable-population social-choice theory turns into a possibility if transitivity is weakened to consistency.

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La dimension juridique des relations entre Samuel de Champlain et les Autochtones de la Nouvelle-France

Contrairement à ce qui s’est produit dans les colonies espagnoles, en Nouvelle-Fance, les Français ont privilégié le maintien de relations pacifiques avec les peuples autochtones. Même si les représentants de la couronne sont autorisés à les assujettir par la force, très rapidement, le roi exige le respect des traités conclus avec eux. Ces alliances constituent d’ailleurs la première étape d’un processus de sédentarisation et de conversion qui doit, dans l’esprit des autorités, culminer par l’assujettissement des Autochtones à la couronne. Pour l’heure, au début du XVIIe siècle, ils sont considérés comme des alliés vivant selon leurs propres coutumes. C’est pourquoi Champlain doit renoncer à appliquer le droit français dans les cas où un Français a été tué par un Autochtone, alors qu’il n’envisage même pas d’imposer ces règles quand les protagonistes sont tous autochtones.