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French Labour Market Segmentation and French Labour Market Policies since the Seventies: Connecting Changes

Gazier, Bernard; Petit, Héloïse - HAL - 2007

The article analyses how the changes in firm's practices and public policies since the 1980s shaped the dynamics of labour market segmentation in France. First, considering firm's human resources practices at the end of the 1990s, on the basis of statistical exploratory analysis, we were able to...

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Exploring the "mechanics" of firm growth : evidence from a short-panel VAR

Coad, Alex - HAL - 2007

This paper offers many new insights into the processes of firm growth by applying a vector autoregression (VAR) model to longitudinal panel data on French manufacturing firms. We observe the co-evolution of key variables such as growth of employment, sales, gross operating surplus and labour...

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Neoclassical vs Evolutionary Theories of Financial Constraints : Critique and Prospectus

Coad, Alex - HAL - 2007

economy. In particular, I attack the neoclassical assumption of managers maximizing shareholder-value. Such an assumption is …

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The employment effects of innovation

Coad, Alex; Rao, Rekha - HAL - 2007

The issue of technological unemployment receives perennial popular attention. Although there are previous empirical investigations that have focused on the relationship between innovation and employment, the originality of our approach lies in our choice of method. We focus on four 2-digit...

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Innovation and firm growth in "complex technology" sectors : a quantile regression approach

Coad, Alex; Rao, Rekha - HAL - 2006

Innovation is commonly seen as the principal engine of economic development. In this paper, we investigate the microfoundations of economic growth by relating innovation to sales growth at the firm-level, for incumbent firms in four «complex technology» sectors. The average firm, which...

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Understanding the processes of firm growth - a closer look at serial growth rate correlation

Coad, Alex - HAL - 2006

Serial correlation in annual growth rates carries a lot of information on growth processes - it allows us to directly observe firm performance as well as to test hypotheses. Using a 7-year balanced panel of 10 000 French manufacturing firms, we observe that small firms typically are subject to...

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Firm Growth : a Survey

Coad, Alex - HAL - 2007

We survey the phenomenon of the growth of firms drawing on literature from economics, management and sociology. We begin with a review of empirical "stylised facts" before discussing theoretical contributions. Firm growth is characterized by a predominant stochastic element, making it difficult...

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To what extent do exemptions from social security contributions affect firm growth? New evidence using quantile estimations on panel data

Levratto, Nadine; Garsaa, Aziza; Tessier, Luc - HAL - 2013

a quantile regression for panel data estimation technique. We show that the impact of the exemption rate and of the …

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How The Simplification of Work Can Degrade Safety: A Gas Company Case Study

Blazsin, Hortense; Guarnieri, Franck; Martin, Christophe - HAL - 2013

Work is focused on a gas company that wishes to develop a better understanding of its safety culture and identify potential enhancement opportunities. The hypothesis that emerged from an exploratory phase of work suggests that the corporate restructuring initiated four years ago, which has...

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Formation aux RPS et groupes d'analyse de pratiques managériales : quels intérêts et limites

Pezé, Stéphan; Journoud, Ségolène - HAL - 2013

Dans un contexte de préoccupation croissante des RPS (risques psychosociaux), la formation des managers à la gestion … discussion permettent aux managers de mieux appréhender la prévention des RPS, tout en évitant de n'être qu'un "coussin … entreprises, et ainsi pointer les conditions nécessaires à ces formations pour aider les managers à lutter contre les RPS …

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