This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source of low well-being. Second, job values have remained fairly stable over time, although workers seem...

Job quality may usefully be thought of as depending on both job values (how much workers care about different job outcomes) and the job outcomes themselves. Here both cross-section and panel data are used to examine changes in job quality in OECD countries over the 1990s. Despite rising wages...

We investigate the impact of new work practices on working conditions. We use a unique French dataset providing information on individual workers for year 1998. New Work practices which play a key role in the success of the new economy, include job rotation and the use of quality norms. Working...

Ce papier propose une première évaluation théorique des deux lois Aubry sur les 35 heures. Si ces lois imposent une nouvelle contrainte aux entreprises en réduisant massivement la durée légale de travail, elles relâchent les contraintes pesant sur la liberté d'organisation du travail...

This article uses a unique French survey that makes it possible to explore various individual determinants of workplace accident reporting. This survey covers a representative sample of 13,000 private- sector employees. Some 10% of workers suffer at least one workplace injury each year and that...

We analyse how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that wages are renegotiated by mutual agreement only is introduced in a matching model with endogenous job destruction "à la" Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) in order to get wage...

In this paper, we investigate whether unemployment benefits should decrease with the unemployment spell in a model where both job search intensity and wages are endogenous. Wages are set by collective agreements bargained by insiders. It is shown that a more declining time sequence of...

It is frequently argued that pure government-mandated severance transfers by the employer to the worker have neither employment nor welfare effect because they can be offset by private transfers from the worker to the employer. In this paper, using a dynamic search and matching model à la...

En matière de développement, depuis vingt ans, les oppositions radicales ont cédé la place à de notables convergences: tant le marché que l'Etat rencontrent des limites, il convient donc de combiner plus que d'opposer leur logique. A l'Etat les décisions stratégiques, au marché le rôle...

Ce travail propose une analyse rétrospective des transformations du rapport salarial fordiste du milieu des années soixante-dix jusqu'à la période présente. Aucune des configurations pures ne s'est imposée qu'il s'agisse du rapport salarial toyotien, de retour à une flexibilité externe,...