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variations in labour costs, depending on the type of firm and the wage level within the firm. This paper presents an evaluation … elasticities can be found with respect to labour costs that have the expected signs: a rise of 1% in average labour costs reduces …
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L'aversion de l'auteur de la Richesse des Nations à l'égard de l'esclavage ne fait guère de doute et se double d'une argumentation économique. Comme celle de ses successeurs, jusqu'à Ricardo, Mill, puis Cairnes, l'argumentation de Smith conduit à conclure à l'inefficacité de l'esclavage...
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Labour poaching is a potential problem in work-linked training systems. Once trained, young people can be poached by …. However, this situation is not socially optimal: it does not exclude underinvestment or skilled labour shortages. This may …
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to get better life conditions, alternative activities to paid jobs and idleness entailed by the labour saving …
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labour-market outcomes across individuals. Peer effects work first by creating pressure on labor-market participation, second … : gender and ethnic groups who are less integrated in the labour market benefit more from peer effect. Finally, networks … quasi-panel data approach relying on the Hausman-Taylor estimator. The importance of social interactions in the labour …
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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 markets to a fourfold division of their labour market with the …
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Drawing on empirical investigations based on national labour force surveys (Enquête Emploi for France, LFS and GHS for … conditions faced by organisations and permanencies and transformations of the macro structure of these two labour markets. We … segments structuring labour market. The evidence suggests that the dualistic opposition between a primary and a secondary …
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R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global societal upgrade. The Chinese authorities have designed an innovation strategy to face new economic and social challenges. The first part of the paper is focused on the emergence...
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The aim of this communication is to present new focuses for research in the field of Environment and Information Communication Technology. In the first part, we will present, through a review of the literature, the rather negative role played by ICT on the environment: paper, transportation,...
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complexity of age management in France. The low participation of French older workers in the labour market was the result of …
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