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...

If some European countries started work on age management long ago, several reports confirmed the urgency and the complexity of age management in France. The low participation of French older workers in the labour market was the result of premature exclusion, within a context of high...

This paper attempts to give some hints for human resources management that are founded on a motivation-based economic analysis of incentives and the idea of relational capital. It is argued that cross-fertilization between traditional economic literature on incentives, experimental economics and...

Advocates of diversity management, replacing the economic differences based on traditional analysis of societies (bourgeois and proletarians, rich and poor, employers and employees) for classifications based on skin colour, gender, religion, aim to get across the idea that in a world without...

This paper focuses on the process whereby an individual at work is singled out and victimised. This phenomenon, named ‘psychological harassment', is defined in terms of four interrelated phases: (1) antecedents interaction, (2) harassment behaviour, (3) responses of the victim and the...

This paper analyses the response of labor input to technology shocks in an estimated two-stage production framework with both price and wage stickiness and stage-specific shocks to productivity. Our model features a vertical input-output structure with imperfect mobility of labors across stages....