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Not all is equal between natives and immigrants in the labor market. Beyond wage differences, immigrants also tend to work in more dangerous jobs and face difficult working conditions. According to the economist Eva Moreno Galbis, this difference can be partially explained by outside employment opportunities and preferences driven by socio-demographic characteristics.

What could be more natural than reaching agreement by following the preference of the majority? Mihir Bhattacharya and Nicolas Gravel study the issue through a mathematical lens. They show that, in addition to its philosophical legitimacy, the majority is a collective preference representative of the preferences of the members of a society. Like the average, the median, or other statistical measures, the preference of the majority bears the closest resemblance to the individual preferences from which it emanates.

Only in French | When a society, composed of individuals, is confronted with different options, finding a collective preference is necessary. But to move from particular interests to the general interest, the method matters and can change the result! That's the subject of the last Sciences Echos video by Charles Figuières (AMU/FEG/AMSE).

Only in French | In "Le Monde", Gilles Dufrénot (AMSE/AMU/FEG/Cepii) proposes not to engage in an anti-inflation policy but rather to avoid overindebtedness.

Only in French | In "La Libre", Phoebe W. Ishak (CNRS/AMSE) and Pierre-Guillaume Méon (ULB) show, through the example of Brazil, that an increase in the price of natural resources is not necessarily to the benefit of producing countries.

Only in French | In the newspaper Le Monde, Cecilia García-Peñalosa (AMSE/CNRS/EHESS) and Fabien Petit (AMSE/AMU) ask why high school mathematics courses are so unpopular among girls.

Only in French | In the Belgian newspaper "La Libre", economists show that in Belgium and France, the mortality rate in nursing homes is higher than in other countries where more resources are devoted to long-term care.

Only in Frencch | On Tuesday 1 March, Bruno Ventelou (AMSE / CNRS) gave a Sciences Echos conference entitled "Economics in the health system?"

For both insurance and divine protection, giving to the church can pay off. This is what economists Emmanuelle Auriol, Julie Lassébie, Amma Panin, Eva Raiber, and Paul Seabright demonstrate after studying the reasons why Ghanaian parishioners often give such large donations (sometimes over 10% of their income!) to their churches.

Only in French | Increasing salaries by taxing property? This is the solution to the problems of access to property proposed by Alain Trannoy (AMSE/EHESS) in Les Echos.