We show that labour market institutions, and particularly employment protection are an important determinant of migration flows. Contrary to the popular wisdom, migrants are not attracted by more protective legislation. On the contrary, we show that the employment protection differential acts as...

[eng] Do Core Labour Standards Reduce Inequality? This study empirically investigates the impact of core labour standards on income inequality for a range of 90 countries from 1990 to 2001. We focus on the four core labour standards (prohibition of child labour, freedom of association and...

This article develops a specific theoretical analysis of labour and firms location in relation to territorial competitiveness. The location process is thus analyzed under three angles: with respect to labour mobility in an economic geography approach; through the firms location choices in an...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a theoretical approach of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in order to assess whether CSR will develop as a concept pushing efficiently for more de facto social responsibility or will become a pure marketing artefact. The trade-off between the...