The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that influence the use of contingent wokers. More than 250 Canadian organizations participed to the survey. Three class of determinants have been tested: environmental factors, work-force costs factors, and organizational flexibility factors....

This paper analyses the impact of migrant remittances on the supply of labour of beneficiaries in a developing country. The model is cast as a two period game between a resident and an altruistic migrant, under imperfect information of the latter about the true economic situation of the former....

On September 1st, 1997, a new childcare policy was initiated by the provincial government of Québec in Canada. Childcare services licensed by the Ministry of the Family (not-for-profit centre, family-based, and for-profit centre under the agreement) began offering daycare spaces at the reduced...

L’objectif de cet article est de mettre en évidence la relation entre la durée d’arrêt de travail, les salaires et l’Assurance maladie. Nous présentons une réécriture du modèle développé par Allen (1981), en tenant compte des spécificités du modèle français. Les propriétés...

L’allègement des travaux domestiques et l’accroissement de la part de revenu du ménage sur lequel les femmes ont un pouvoir de décision sont deux objectifs de développement complémentaires quoique motivés par des raisons différentes. Pour atteindre ces objectifs, il convient de...

French Abstract: Le travail des enfants demeure une préoccupation pour les décideurs compte tenu de ses interrelations sur le plan microéconomique et macroéconomique. L'objectif de cette étude est de comparer les effets de la pauvreté des ménages à ceux de la qualité de l'école. Ainsi,...

Economists have paid very little attention to the role of working conditions in sickness absence. Yet, bad working conditions are a potential determinant of labour supply, either directly or through their impact on health. This study tries to shed some light on this issue. To begin with, we...

Historical changes in the typical life-cycle do not conform to a simple model of equal-sharing in which additional years of life are equally distributed between time devoted to training, work and leisure. We have instead observed a quasi-general decline in the share of our life-cycles that is...

When they are asked about their satisfaction with respect to various domains (job, financial situation, and so on) individuals give responses which may be misinterpreted because they both report their situation and their judgment about it. Although satisfaction is generally correlated with...

Mens and womens pensions and retirement ages remain very different, even if this gap has been closing (slowly) for the most recent generations. This work analyses possible developments till 2040. We first study the impact on future pension entitlements and on disparities between genders of the...