To reduce the potential burden of the ageing population on public finances, the European Council set EU member states the target of increasing the senior employment rate. Considering that seniors play a major role in caring for dependent elderly people, it is appropriate to ask whether a policy...

This paper focus on the trade-between work and informal care among individuals aged 50 to 65.We first outlines the standard microeconomic model used to study how individuals allocate their time between labour, parental care and leisure. From the two first-order conditions of the standard model,...

L’article cherche à expliciter empiriquement les déterminants du respect des normes de travail fondamentales et plus précisément à identifier le rôle joué par le niveau de développement. Le degré de respect de ces normes est évalué par un indicateur original, construit sur un...

While the WTO and Doha Development Round do not deal with labour issues – they leave this to the ILO – the main countries that conclude free trade agreements incorporate labour provisions, which vary in terms of stringency. Sanctions are rarely used, and fears that “social clauses” would...

In a vision of co-construction of possible future, our work based on emerging facts aims at thinking of the possible competencies, activities, training program. The jobs prospective can be seen as a capacity of anticipating changes more adapted than traditional methods based on prevision. The...