We investigate the impact of occupational safety and health (OSH) and environmental regulation on the rate of growth of total factor productivity (TFP) in the Quebec manufacturing sector during the 1985-88 period. Our results show that environmental regulation and OSH protective reassignments (a...

Sous la direction de Benoit A. Aubert et Jean-Grégoire Bernard Les organisations, qu'elles soient privées ou publiques, locales ou globales, diversifiées ou non, fonctionnent dans des environnements constamment en évolution, ce qui rend cruciales l'analyse et la gestion des relations...

(Sous la direction de Michel Poitevin) Impartition et sous-traitance apparaissent souvent comme des synonymes : pourtant, les deux termes recoupent des réalités distinctes. La sous-traitance renvoie aux modalités - économiques ou légales - de toute forme de délégation. L'impartition...

Synthèse critique d'expériences de partenariats public-privé analyzes the performance of seven national and international partnership initiatives between the private and public sectors (PPP), which include: the construction of the Millau Viaduc in France; the construction of the Confederation...

his description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic policies that could be adapted to the Quebec context. To better understand these innovations, the case of New-Zealand was selected. Le but de cette vignette, faite dans le cadre...

For many, Quebec government intervention in hydroelecticity began in 1963 with the nationalization of the industry. In fact, this was the last stage of a progression in policy whose beginnings can be traced back to the Quebec Electricity Commission in 1935. Was this commission effective or was...

Traditionally, the company has been attributed relative control over employees' career paths, particularly in the case of very active organizational management. However, the growing need for organizational flexibility has led to the increasing recourse to atypical work, which in turn contributes...

The dilemma between cultural or sector predictors of compensation policies is more important than ever in a context of internationalization. If relations between sectors of activity and compensation practices are well established in a single country, international comparisons are less frequently...

This paper provides evidence that workers' compensation (WC) and unemployment insurance (UI)could affect not only the occurence of workplace accident claims, but also the composition of these reported accidents. Our theoretical framework predicts that, under plausible assumptions, an increase in...