This study deals with the financial structures and the performances of small and medium-sized (SMEs) versus Large enterprises (LEs) using BACH data bank which is the most advanced available data base for comparison in this field. It covers the period 1990-1996 and concerns 9 countries (7...

[eng] The forming of unemployment as a category during the thirties. Robert Salais. Modern unemployment is the outcome of two social processes which interact, yet which are not identical : industrialization and urbanization. The position of the unemployed individual was defined at the same time...

This study examines the financial structures and the performances of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as opposed to large enterprises (LEs) on the basis of the BACH database, which is the most advanced publicly available database for comparisons in this field. It covers the period...

[fre] à l'emploi doivent, dans cette allocation, voir leur importance reconnue, et notamment ceux liés à la notion d'empioi « efficace » pour résorber le chômage structurel. [eng] Some problems about employment needs. The article deals with the nature of employment needs and the demands...

[eng] The economic analysis of labour conventions. . Even by taking the concepts of authority, contract or incitation, the theories of market encounter many unsolved difficultes when they try to extent the market patterns to the labour relation. The article emphasizes that the labour relation is...

I discuss what the Open Method of Coordination does, not from the point of view of its procedures, but via the cognitive instruments that serve as tools for coordination, benchmarking and adjustment of national policies. This helps to connect with the analysis of conventions with regards to...

This paper presents the main assumptions of the French research on the "économie des conventions" toward an anglo-saxon audience. It applies that framework to labour issues and, specifically, the formalisation of the labour relation.