Caroline Ferraris-Besso, Assistant Professor of French

In this first column of the spring semester, Caroline Ferraris-Besso, Assistant Professor of French, shares which recent novel made her laugh out loud, her favorite cookbooks (and favorite brioche recipe!), and works that have inspired her academic writing

Employment intensity of growth and its macroeconomics determinants

This study analyses the impact of macroeconomics variables on the dynamism of labour market in Cameroon. To attend our objectives, the elasticity of employment of used firstly to analyze effective employed correlation and economic growth. Secondly, the determinants of this elasticity were estimated in order to know the macroeconomics variables which influence the level of effective employment in Cameroon. In order to get these results the variables of WDI, 2008 and data of National Institute Statistics was used with the software Eviews. The result of our estimations shows a weak relationship between the macroeconomic variables and the level of evolution of employment. In a general point of view, our results can be biased coming from different data sources used to estimate this modelInflation, Unemployment, employment and GDP

"A todas y a ninguna parte" : una breve mirada a la identidad argentina a través de la novela "Una sombra ya pronto serás" de Osvaldo Soriano Jorge

La cuestión de la identidad es algo que hoy en día nos seduce de manera particular, ya sea por su contenido en sí, como a causa de los procesos culturales uniformizadores generados en los últimos años por la globalización, razones por las cuales el tema ha adquirido una renovada importancia. Sin embargo, nos cuesta introducirnos en el asunto, debido sobre todo a la complejidad que presenta, como a la confrontación de ideas, modelos, interpretaciones e intereses en dura colisión que genera. Esto puede observarse visiblemente en nuestra actual realidad latinoamericana: desde México hasta Bolivia, el ideario aborigen ha resurgido en contraposición con aquellos sectores representantes de la antigua oligarquía criolla, materializándose en distintos movimientos sociales que pugnan por el control de los resortes del poder político y económico.Fil: Besso Pianetto, Jorge O.. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letra

Phillips Curve, case study in Cameroon: evaluation of fundamental assumptions

This study consists of examining the effects of inflation on unemployment in Cameroon. Beginning from the hypothesis which says inflation has a negative effect on unemployment, the Philips curve model was chosen to verify this hypothesis. From the results of this study, the anticipation errors influence negatively the evolution of unemployment rate in Cameroon in such away, if the inflation rate increases, the unemployment rate reduces. The reverse is true that is if the inflation reduces the unemployment rate increases. This negative relationship between the inflation rate and the unemployment rate is witnessed in Cameroon like in the study carried out by Philips in (1958).but here the coefficient of anticipation errors is weak, so the degree of influence will also be weak. Economics agencies will find it difficult in capturing the effect of inflation on employment. The estimated equation gives the natural value of unemployment and the potential inflation rate. As concerns natural unemployment, it is estimated to be 0.6% and the potential inflation rate is estimated to be 21.25%.this means that if markets function normally, the unemployment rate in Cameroon will be 0.6% for 21.25% of inflation rate. The data used was gotten from National Institute of Statistics and the World Bank. The software Eviews was used to carry out estimations.inflation, unemployment, space state model