A survey of thirty years of French literature suggests an assessment of the segmentationist perspective today: a compulsory theoretical reference as soon as one debates the varied nature of the employment relationship; and an old-fashioned reference that is now obscured by more general analyses...

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...

This paper aims at studying the modification of French and British labour market segmentation from years 1980's to 2000's. Based on a multiple correspondence analysis using national labour force surveys in 1982-83 and 2001, we bring to light the evolution from a ternary structure of these...

Drawing on empirical investigations based on national labour force surveys (Enquête Emploi for France, LFS and GHS for The UK) for years 1982-3 and 2001, the aim of this paper is to expose relationships between new external and internal conditions faced by organisations and permanencies and...

In the institutionalist analysis of labour markets, the segmentationist approaches are an interesting tool for understanding the employment models. In this paper we will try to show how these approaches must be adapted to the new labour market phenomena in France and what their impact on the...

Regarding changes in French and British labour market as in their educational system since the Eighties, one may address the evolution of their labour market segmentation. Is the predominance of Internal Labour Market in France and Occupational Labour Market in Great Britain (Eyraud, Marsden,...

In urban China, urban resident annual earnings are 1.3 times larger than long term rural migrant earnings as observed in a nationally representative sample in 2002. Using microsimulation, we decompose this difference into four sources, with particular attention to path dependence and statistical...