Cet article revient sur l’interprétation théorique de 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...

In coordination with the ECB and 24 other national central banks of the European Union, the Banque de France interrogated 1150 French firms to understand how the crisis affected their economic environment and their human resources practices during the 2010-2013 period. A majority of workers were...

Firms are more productive on average in larger cities. Two explanations have been offered: agglomeration economies (larger cities promote interactions that increase productivity) and firm selection (larger cities toughen competition allowing only the most productive to survive). To distinguish...

We propose an original model of human capital investments after leaving school in which individuals differ in their initial human capital obtained at school, their rate of return, their costs of human capital investments and their terminal values of human capital at retirement. We derive a...