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How do Japanese and French firms in steel industry address the institutional change and the globalization? Employment adjustment and age management in a downsizing context

Lanciano, Emilie; Nitta, Michio - HAL - 2010

Steel industry has been engaged for a very long time in a downsizing process which has deeply transformed social and industrial relations, work and employment management. Once, these industry was owned and managed by big national groups (sometimes public) and employed a lot of workers at...

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Shaping and reshaping the work organisation : including or excluding low skilled labour? The case of the nurse assistant in Germany, France and the United Kingdom

Grimshaw, Damian; Carroll, Marilyn; Jaehrling, Karen; … - HAL - 2006

The hospital industry could be characterised on the one hand as under “industrial constraints” (just in time, 24 hours opening, and on the other hand as a service activity with, in departments, a high degree of patient oriented activities. Very similar pressure are exerted on hospitals in...

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Why is the gender wage gap in Japan so large compared with France? : a comparison based on decomposition analysis

Hori, Haruhiko; Nohara, Hiroatsu - HAL - 2006

comparison with France. It has been designed as follows. In section 1, we begin by comparing the general features of labour …

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Forecasting the skills needs and developing the coordination between actors : statements and comments

Méhaut, Philippe - HAL - 2006

Finland and France share some common characteristics regarding the labour market situation and trends : a high level of unemployment (respectively 8.4% and 9.5%), a low rate of employment among the 55-65 and the 15-24 age groups (for the latter mainly due to a “full time” educational model),...

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A Comparative Study of R&D Staff in France and Japan : Skill Formation, Career Patterns and Organisational Creation of Knowledge

Lanciano-Morandat, Caroline; Nohara, Hiroatsu - HAL - 1999

This paper attempts to interpret the interrelated dimensions of learning between technological professions (technicians, engineers, researchers) and the dynamic process of innovation on the basis of a international comparative analysis. One of main hypothesis is that scientific and technological...

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The French Monetary Management in the Inter-war Period: the Dismissal of Open Market Procedure?

Barbaroux, Nicolas - HAL - 2006

The notion of rule surrounded the gold standard system. For instance, it is not seldom to present the gold standard system under the 1925 Keynesian expression as the rules of the game. However, it is nowadays quite crystal clear that gold standard system was not such a self regulating system in...

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THE RISE AND FALL OF SPATIAL INEQUALITIES IN FRANCE: A LONG-RUN PERSPECTIVE

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren; Thisse, … - HAL - 2008

This paper uses a unique database that provides value-added, employment, and population levels for the entire set of French departments for the years 1860, 1930, and 2000. These data cover three sectors: agriculture, manufacturing, and services. This allows us to study the evolution of spatial...

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Return migrants : The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China

Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - HAL - 2011

This paper analyzes return migrants' occupational choice upon their return to their home village, by using an original rural household survey conducted in Wuwei county (Anhui province, China) in 2008. We apply two complementary approaches : a horizontal comparative analysis of occupational...

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Financial Development, Entrepreneurship, and Job Satisfaction

Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2012

This paper shows that utility differences between the self-employed and employees increase with financial development. This effect is not explained by increased profits but by an increased value of non-monetary benefits, in particular job independence. We interpret these findings by building a...

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Entrepreneurship and Rent-Seeking Behavior

Dejardin, Marcus - HAL - 2011

entrepreneurship and rent-seeking behavior. It comprises the introduction of employed concepts, the discussion of the allocation of … entrepreneurs between different types of economic projects, namely between innovative entrepreneurship and rent-seeking, as well as … the explicative factors of the allocation. Interactions between entrepreneurship, rent-seeking and growth are considered …

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