This article analyses the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender division of labour. It identifies and analyses cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using most recent data available from the Time Use National...

This contribution analyzes how men and women in France, Italy, Sweden, and the United States use their time over the life cycle and the extent to which societal and institutional contexts influence the gender division of labor. In order to test the hypothesis that contextual factors play a...

The European employment strategy initiated in 1997 is critically dependent upon the further integration of women into the labor market. The European Union has set a specific target employment rate for women of 60 percent by 2010 and is also committed to providing more and better child care...

À partir d'un échantillon représentatif des entreprises françaises de dix salariés et plus des secteurs marchands, issu de l'enquête Changements Organisationnels et Informatisation (COI) de 2006, les auteurs dressent un bilan statistique de la diffusion des ERP (Progiciels de gestion...

[eng] Abstract For the post second war period the French growth and total factor productivity has been examined by abundant papers but, few have interested in more longer period studies, because of the lack of data. The aim of this paper is to give some elements for the analysis of French long...

The past 120 years have been characterised by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in the four countries; (ii) a decline in productivity in the United Kingdom relative to the United States, and to a lesser extent also relative to France and Japan until the second world war...

Le mouvement de réorganisations des entreprises a été très marqué tout au long des années 1990, avec une orientation forte vers la décentralisation. Puis les entreprises ont remanié leur organisation interne de façon à améliorer la coordination et la communication en explorant les...

This study examines the effects that the introduction and diffusion of information technology have had on potential and actual growth of output and labour productivity in France over the last two decades. L’étude propose une analyse des effets de l’émergence et de la diffusion des...