Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on Congressional committees with jurisdictional authority over the firms' industries and politicians who join those committees innovate more. We employ instrumental variables estimation and a...

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...

Présentation polémique du slogan présidentiel : travailler plus pour gagner plus.

Ces dernières années, un faisceau d'évolutions diverses convergent sur la thématique de la santé au travail. Ces questions, dont l'ampleur a été soulignée par diverses enquêtes ou plus dramatiquement par les médias dans l'actualité récente, sont ainsi devenues l'objet d'interventions...

Several papers have shown that France has a lower share of firms with more than 50 employees than other developed counties (see for example Van Ark and Monnikhof, 1996). It has been argued that size-contingent thresholds in labor regulations at 10, 20 and 50 employees could explain part of this...