[fre] Le secteur associatif, qui se distingue du secteur privé par ses objectifs plus sociaux et par une manière d’entreprendre différente, est susceptible de séduire des travailleurs guidés par des motivations non pécuniaires dans le choix de leur activité professionnelle. Les...

This paper investigates the relation between advances in technology and trends in the gender wage gaps in the US service industry. Using quarterly US Current Population Survey data on employment and wages by four major occupations between 1979 and 2001, the paper estimates a constant elasticity...

This article focuses on wage differentials between French nonprofit, for-profit and public sectors. Considering the public sector allows testing more extensively the labour donation theory (Preston, 1989). The findings support this theory because nonprofit workers accept to earn significantly...

This paper examines whether dynamic professional contexts in manufacturing are associated with specific age-training profiles. During the 1990s, a comparative disadvantage of blue collar workers and clerks aged between 50 and 59 with regards to training in computer skills has been observed,...

[fre] Les emplois à horaires atypiques sont-ils compensés par des salaires plus élevés ? Nous utilisons des données appariées employeurs-salariés et montrons qu ’ il est nécessaire de contrôler pour les effets d ’ auto-sélection et de considérer séparément la formation des...

[eng] Absolute or Relative Performance : How do French Firms Choose their Wage Bonuses ? . This article analyses employers ’ choice to base merit bonuses on relative performance . The relative element consists in comparing workers ’ output and its major advantage is to eliminate the mutual...

Using a linked employer-employee survey on computerisation and organisational change (COI), we compare the effects of organisational changes on the evolution of employee commitment in public and private sector organisations. Our main finding is that of a non-convergence between the two sectors....