The ‘conventional cancelation’ is a way for employer and employee to mutually agree for ending the labor contract. Officially, it will permit to raise mutually beneficial agreements and to reduce the judge role. First, what is at stake here is the bargaining capacity of the employee and the...

French abstract: L'article analyse la délimitation du temps de travail par rapport au temps de repos du point de vue des dispositions de la Charte sociale européenne adoptée à Turin en 1961 et des solutions prononcées par le Comité européen des Droits sociaux. En même temps, la force...

L’objectif de cette étude est d’estimer l’impact de certaines conditions de travail sur des indicateurs de dépenses de santé et de mesurer l’effet agrégé sur les dépenses de santé de la collectivité. Notre analyse empirique repose sur un échantillon de salariés âgés de 18 à...

Today, working in the industrialized countries is mainly a matter of middle-aged people (25 to 54 year old). This is particularly true in France where the participation rate for the less than 25 year old people is the smallest one in OECD countries and that for men older than 54 one of the...

We present a model of female participation in the labor force, which deals with part time work and the minimum wage. The model is estimated on the French employment survey of 1997. We use it to compare various incentive schemes to work, such as the 'allocation compensatoire de revenu', the...

The recovery in employment growth observed in the last two years in France allowed a substantial reduction of the unemployment rate. Since 1993, labor market policies have aimed at lowering the labor costs for unskilled workers. In the same time, the volume of unskilled employment, measured...