The structure of worker compensation in Brazil, with a comparison to France and the United States

We employ comprehensive linked employer-employee data for Brazil to analyze wage determinants and compare results to Abowd et al. (2001) for French and U.S. manufacturing. While returns to human capita in Brazilian manufacturing exceed those of the other countries, occupation and gender differentials are similar. The worker-characteristics component accounts for much of the greater wage inequality in Brazil, but the establishment-fixed component has scant explanatory power. Thus, firm-or industry-level factors offer little scope for explaining the differences in wage inequality. Brazil`s wage structure resembles that of France, a country with some similarity in labor market institutions.

The Relative Frequency of the Synthetic End Composite Futures in the Newspaper Quest-France and some Observations on Distribution

Figures on the relative frequency of synthetic and composite future forms in Ouest-France are presented and compared with those of earlier studies on the passé simple and passé composé. The synthetic future is found to be dominant. Possible formal explanations for distribution are found to be inconclusive. Distribution across different text-types is found to be more promising, since contrastive functions of the two forms can be identified in texts where they co-occur. The composite future typically reports new proposals or plans as current news, while the synthetic future outlines details that will be realised at the time of implementation. Both functions are important in dailies, but current news is more often expressed in the present tense at the expense of the composite future.

Influência do tipo de parto e do sexo no desempenho e nas características da carcaça de cordeiros cruza Ile de France x Texel

O experimento foi realizado no Setor de Ovinocultura do Departamento de Zootecnia da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), com o objetivo de avaliar o efeito do tipo de parto e do sexo sobre o desempenho e as características da carcaça de cordeiros cruza Ile de France x Texel. Foram utilizados 12 cordeiros não castrados e seis cordeiras. O delineamento experimental adotado foi o inteiramente casualizado, com seis repetições. Os tratamentos foram: cordeiros de parto simples, cordeiros de parto duplo e cordeiras de parto duplo. O ganho de peso médio diário do nascimento aos 21 dias dos cordeiros de parto simples foi superior (P < 0,05) em relação aos cordeiros e cordeiras de parto duplo. Entretanto, após a fase inicial de amamentação, em que o leite deixa de ser o principal componente da dieta, verificou-se que os cordeiros de parto simples apresentaram desempenho semelhante ao dos de parto duplo. Os cordeiros tiveram ganho de peso superior (P < 0,05) aos das cordeiras após os 42 dias de vida. As características da carcaça de cordeiros de parto simples e cordeiros e cordeiras de parto duplo são similares, com exceção do peso de carcaças quente e fria e do comprimento interno de carcaça e perna, em que o dos machos são superiores ao das fêmeas.

Performance of european socially responsible funds during market crises: evidence from France

This paper investigates the performance, investment styles andmanagerial abilities of French socially responsible investment (SRI) funds investing in Europe during crisis and non-crisis periods. Our results show that SRI funds significantly underperformcharacteristics-matched conventional funds during non-crisis periods, but match the performance of their peers duringmarket downturns. The underperformance of SRI funds during good economic states is driven by funds that use negative screens, since funds that use only positive screens performsimilarly to conventional funds across differentmarket conditions. SRI and conventional funds showsignificant differences in risk exposures during non-crisis periods but exhibit much more similar investment styles during crises. Furthermore,we find little evidence of significant differences inmanagerial abilities during bad economic states. Yet, during non-crisis periods, SRI and conventional fund managers exhibit significantly different style-timing abilities and these differences are also related to screening strategies.

Une énigme lacanienne et sa solution ou comment «bâtir en France une nouvelle Athènes»

A data da emergência do «Discurso da Universidade» em Lacan introduz uma pontuação cronológica que parece carecer de plausibilidade, já que cerca de 350 anos separam o que se ensina na antiga Atenas da construção medieval da Universidade. Este artigo explica o que leva Lacan a dar as suas datas.

Activités d’écriture approchée et entrée dans l’écrit des jeunes enfants: analyse comparative de démarches didactiques en première primaire en france

Nous présentons le suivi d’une cohorte d’élèves, de la grande section (troisième année de maternelle en France -5 ans) à la fin du CE1 (deuxième année de primaire –7/8 ans). La population est constituée d’un groupe contrôle et d’un groupe expérimental pratiquant des séances hebdomadaires d’écriture approchée, observées et filmées à différentes périodes de l’année (octobre, mars et juin). Dans notre contribution, nous analysons les séances filmées en fin de CP (première primaire), dans une perspective essentiellement comparatiste. L’objectif est de décrire la démarche didactique mise en œuvre par les enseignantes lors de séances d’enseignement de l’écriture. L'analyse des productions d'écrit et des verbalisations des élèves nous permet également d'évaluer ces démarches d’enseignement et de caractériser celle qui semble le plus propice au développement de compétences métalinguistiques des apprentis scripteurs

Répartition des foraminifères benthiques dans les gisements de surface du Miocène d'Aquitaine (SW de la France)

The Aquitaine Basin (southwestern France) is known since long ago for its richness in marine miocene deposits of various facies. A few stratotypes concerning this period have been described in the investigated area. The stratigraphical framework has been recently revised and the study of new exposures completes our knowledge on these levels. In the present work, the authors produce a biostratigraphical distribution of about 160 species (larger and smaller foraminifera), found in the surface exposures of Aquitaine, from the topmost Oligocene (Chattian) through to Middle Miocene (including Serravallian). As a rule, the common species without significant ranges have not bcen mentioned. The microfaunas of several exposures have been thoroughly revised, which has allowed to precise the distribution of many species and induced a few modifications of the results previously produced. Synonymy problems and new taxonomical revisions have been taken into account. Of course, this work will be probably submitted to some changes according to new research on the already known exposures or other more recently discovered.

Etude de populations de Glycymeris (Bivalvia, Glycymerididae) du Miocène d'Aquitaine, Sud-Ouest de la France

Abundant crops of Glycymeris have been made in the neritic bioclastic deposits of the Aquitaine Basin. After an outline about the Chattian taxa, the 5 Lower Miocene lineages are presented; G. cor is plainly predominant. Then, the Middle Miocene faunas are also detaiIed, G. inflatus and G. bimaculatus being the most frequent taxa. A test of biometrical analysis about the G. cor species is presented.

Assessment of eutrophication status of two Northern Irish Loughs

Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia do Ambiente, perfil Engenharia Sanitária

Répartition des foraminifères benthiques dans les gisements de surface du Miocène d'Aquitaine (SW de la France)

The Aquitaine Basin (southwestem France) is known since long ago for its richness in marine miocene deposits ofvarious facies. A few stratotypes concerning this period have bccn described in the investigated area. The stratigraphical framework has becn recently revised and the study of new exposures completes our knowledge on these levels. In the present work, the authors produce a biostratigraphical distribution of about 160 species (Iarger and smaller foraminifera), found in the surface exposures of Aquitaine, from the topmost Oligocene (Chattian) through to Middle Miocene (including Serravallian). As a rule, the common species without significant ranges have not bcen mentioned. The microfaunas of several exposures have been thoroughly revised, which has allowcd to precise the distribution of many species and induced a few modifications of the results previously produced. Synonymy problems and new taxonomical revisions have been taken into account. Of course, this work will be probably submitted to some changes according to new research on the already known exposures or other more recently discovered.