In many developed countries, the share of wage employment out of the total agricultural labour force has been increasing for the last ten years. Using data from French agricultural censuses, we present an analysis of the factors that influence households' decisions about whether to work on the...

In many developed countries, the share of permanent hired labour in the total agricultural labour force has been increasing in recent years. Using data from the 1988 and 2000 agricultural censuses in France, we analyse the factors that influence households' decisions regarding the use of hired...

By disaggregating the Midi-Pyrenees region into 18 different local labour markets, we have highlighted wage differentials which can be completely explained neither by structural effects related to the sectoral distribution of the firms nor by the individual characteristics of the local manpower....

The larger the labour market, the more likely firms are to find on this market an individual meeting precisely the requirements of a vacancy and the more likely a job seeker is to find a job offer matching his skills. As a consequence, everything being held equal (in particular, firm size and...

C25, J63.

Cette étude propose un panorama de la situation de l'emploi salarié agricole en France et de son évolution au cours de la période contemporaine en mobilisant différentes sources statistiques. Après avoir décrit les conditions générales de l'emploi salarié -le type de contrat, la nature...

Most previous studies modeling overeducation has failed to take into account the impact of the local labor markets characteristics. We investigate overeducation in such a context, focusing on employment density. In this paper we restrict our analysis on a statistical approach of the...

This article investigates the impact of various rural development measures on the evolution of farm labour in France between 2006 and 2011. Regionally-aggregated data were used, while potential spatial effects were taken into account. Results show that farm labour change was positively...

Ces dernières années, plusieurs crises ont entamé la confiance des consommateurs dans la sécurité sanitaire de leur alimentation. Cette situation a favorisé plusieurs fausses alertes qui ont parfois entraîné de vraies crises. Nous étudions l’une de ces crises, survenue en 1999 suite...