This study looks into the use of fixed term contracts and agency work in Russia during and shortly after the crisis 2009-10 with the help of an enterprise survey. The results of variance analysis show that the use of fixed-term or agency work contracts is not uniform across sectors, size and...

La durée d’utilisation des équipements dans l’industrie manufacturière revient à la normale en 2010 après une baisse historique, selon l’enquête de la Banque de France. Une hausse de 4,5 % est prévue pour 2011.

Cet article revient sur l’interprétation théorique des l’élasticité du nombre d’heures travaillées aux salaires en tenant compte de la demande de travail à temps partiel dans le cadre d’un modèle d’équilibre de recherche en emploi. Une entreprise propose des emplois à temps...

En 2011, la durée d’utilisation des équipements poursuit sa hausse amorcée en 2010 mais à un rythme plus modéré. Les chefs d’entreprises prévoient que sa croissance continuerait de ralentir en 2012.

Une conjecture frequemment enoncee concerne l'effet des variations du cout du travail non-qualifie sur la demande a long terme de ce travail : l'application de modeles macroeconomiques, calibres a l'aide d'estimations des elasticites de substitution entre facteurs de production, devrait...

During economic downturns, labour hoarding becomes an attractive human resource strategy if sizeable search and training costs render hiring and training new workers too costly. The paper sheds light on the prevalence and extent of labour hoarding in five New EU Member States and Turkey during...

The aim of the paper is to investigate the short-term joint dynamics of productivity and employment during the economic down cycles in the EU economies over the past 20 years. Disentangling the shift in labour demand into a change of employment-productivity schedule and a movement along it, we...

During the last two decades, the labour demand structure in Germany and other OECD countries has experienced a decrease in the demand for low skilled and a rise in the demand for highly skilled employees. The adoption of modern technologies in the production process as well as the growth of...

This paper analyses the impact that firms' financial position has on investment decisions using panel data from a large sample of non-financial corporations (around 120,000 firms) in six euro area countries (Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain). The results indicate that...

This paper provides the first comparative examination of the consequences of leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and traditional corporate acquisitions on employment and wages using a uniquely constructed panel data set covering the period 1996-2006. Employing propensity score matching combined with...