Cette recherche s'inscrit dans la continuité d'une intervention majeure en ergonomie participative au sujet des maux de dos affectant les manutentionnaires, réalisée à la Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) en 1989-1990 par une équipe de chercheurs financée par l'IRSST. Cette recherche...

Deeply linked to the operational modes of industrial society and to the characteristics of each country, the traditional and modern models compresive four kinds of career: bureaucratic, professional, enterprising and sociopolitic.

This paper analyses current career development practices due to the decrease aí job opportunities: 1. the lack of excellence in Business Administration programs; 2. the work market turbulences and 3. the growth of part-time jobs. Deep transformations are necessary in order to change the future...

I show that in a conventional Ramsey model, between one-fourth and one-half of the global income distribution can be explained by a single factor: The effect of large, persistent differences in national average IQ on the private marginal product of labor. Thus, differences in national average IQ...

Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has been difficult to measure this abstract concept. We survey the psychological literature on cross-cultural IQ tests, and conclude that modern intelligence tests are well-suited for measuring an important form of a...

I show that in a conventional Ramsey model, between one-fourth and one- half of income differences across countries can be explained by a single factor: The steady-state effect of large, persistent differences in national average IQ on worker productivity. These differences in cognitive...