Territorial development can be considered as a multidimensional process in which individual and collective preferences for land-use and allocation of local resources are confronting. The paper scrutinizes what can be learned from litigation before civil and administrative courts in the field of...

In this paper, we expose the economic conditions of cities emergence in a spatial general equilibrium framework. The presence of increasing returns based on the division of labour, transport costs and the possible existence of an agricultural surplus are enough to generate different possible...

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...