Beyond the deadline of the wage collective agreement, union members can decide to continue the work under the terms of the old contract while they are bargaining with the employer. This situation which is referred to as the hold out option, seems to be nowadays an important feature in labor...

En apportant des fondements microéconomiques à la segmentation du marché du travail, la nouvelle microéconomie de l'emploi est restée focalisée sur une vision manichéenne des modes organisationnels de coordination des offres et des demandes d'emploi opposant le marché externe au marché...

This paper provides new developments in job search theory, incorporating a duality in search strategies which compose the offer rate. Two strategies are modelled. A first one, called passive strategy, consists in searching exclusively in the spatial area of the public employment agency. The...

This paper studies the determinants of scientific productivity from an original database of French academic economists observed in 2009 and 2010. All these individuals were involved in the first and second experiences of an academic competition, the ?Prime excellence Scientifique?. This...

The scientific environment might influence university researchers' job designs. In a principal-agent model, researchers must choose between substitutable tasks, publishing or teaching, according to their individual abilities and the scientific and pedagogical context that exists in their...

The scientific environment might influence university researchers’ job designs. In a principal–agent model, researchers must choose between substitutable tasks, publishing or teaching, according to their individual abilities and the scientific and pedagogical context that exists in their...

This paper studies the determinants of scientific productivity from an original database of French academic economists active in 2009. All individuals of this dataset were involved in the first experience of the ?Prime d?Excellence Scientifique?. This academic competition was introduced by the...

The objective of this paper is to provide microeconomic evidence for “Oswald’s hypothesis”, which is whether homeownership results in negative outcomes in the labour market. In a first step, a probit model for the choice of tenure status is estimated. The estimated probability of being a...

Nous présentons un modèle simple permettant d'interpréter la transition d'un CDD à un CDI à partir d'un mécanisme de tournoi dans lequel la promotion vers le CDI est basée sur une norme de productivité. Les propriétés d'équilibre du modèle montrent que l'écart de salaire entre CDI...