This paper proposes a new explanation of the job quality issue in search and matching models, which is not based on market externalities but on strategic interactions within firms through the intrafirm bargaining process. We develop a matching and intrafirm bargaining model in which large firms...

The Swiss schooling system is characterized by early tracking of pupils into di erent types of education, which suggests that the impact of parental background may a ect transitions at a relatively young age which condition the future transitions of their children as well as their nal...

Longtemps négligées et jamais vraiment traitées, les questions budgétaires figurent parmi les dossiers les plus sensibles de la construction européenne. La situation budgétaire actuelle apparaît assez atypique ce qui soulève de nombreuses questions et incertitudes pour l'avenir....

In the economic literature it is generally found that trade openness affects environment through various channels. While the mechanisms through which trade is associated with pollution are largely investigated theoretically and empirically, the role played by each trade component has not yet...

The Kyoto Protocol, which came in force in February 2005, allows countries to resort to «supplementary activities» consisting particularly in carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. Existing papers studying the optimal carbon sequestration recognize the importance of the temporality of...

L'étude de trajectoires historiques de 15 cas montre que la stratégie agricole est encore influencée par les références au modèle dominant qui conditionne la vision du dirigeant et la difficulté managériale des diversifications. On constate néanmoins que les entreprenants parviennent à...

L'accompagnement des néo-ruraux porteurs de projet est confronté à la double problématique de l'insertion sociale et culturelle, et de la réussite économique de la création d'activité. La plupart des dispositifs ne sont pas adaptés à une telle atypicité, mêlant un projet de vie à la...