This article examines the use of covenants non to compete in employment contracts, clauses which raise the issue of firm intangible assets appropriation and the sharing of the rent with the employees. It relies on the recent theoretical developments that show how the law can ensure innovation...

This paper proposes a review of the book « Droit et Economie de la propriété intellectuelle » (Intellectual property law and economics) (edited by Frison-Roche and A. Abello, 2005) that gathers 17 contributions of lawyers and Economists. We present the main and strong argument of this...

"Institutions", as a set of pre-existing and objective resources of justification, is the milieu where economic agents can find materials to solve their coordination problems and/or their conflicts of reproduction. "Conventions" are collective representations of Hjustified common worlds" that...

Les changements en cours dans les formes l'intermédiation du marché du travail accroissent l'intérêt d'une analyse précise du rôle des intermédiaires et leur positionnement les uns vis-à vis des autres. À partir de l'enquête Ofer (Dares, 2005), ce texte examine la segmentation du "...

The British labour market is distinguished by a stronger presence of job placement agencies than the French market. We analyse this difference by pointing out the diverse roles played by labour market intermediaries in each country. Theoretically, we elaborate a framework in order to point out...

The French OFER survey (2005), based on a sample of over 4,050 private establishments, allows analyzing the recruitment practices of firms, in particular the way they search and find applicants. The analysis framework proposes a distinction between having recourse to market intermediaries which...

[fre] En suivant une approche néo-institutionnelle inspirée de celle de North, nous montrons comment le brevet joue son rôle d'incitation à l'innovation et de vecteur de sa diffusion. En général, on suppose que la règle de droit incite à une codification des connaissances en échange de...