The crisis revealed the need for a strategic review of the existing social protection system in Estonia. Extreme income fluctuations on one side and low social benefits on the other side exposed fragile groups in the population to a significant poverty risk. The government has recently...

The labour market in Russia is very flexible. Firms adjust to economic shocks through wage cuts, working hour reductions and minimisation of non-wage labour costs. Workers react by changing jobs. This results in a high and stable overall employment rate, but also high wage inequality,...

We study the interactions between the capital structure and the technological flexibility choices of firms in a duopoly. When there are bankruptcy costs, a leveraged firm may modify its strategic choices in order to decrease its probability of bankruptcy. We show that, when the capacity level of...

This Working Paper looks at structural policies which would improve Greece’s long-term economic performance and help speed economic and social convergence with average European Union member countries. It focuses on a number of key areas which are particularly important for rapid growth as they...

(VF) Dans cette étude portant sur un vaste échantillon de sociétés japonaises, nous montrons que, comme aux États-Unis, une bonne gouvernance se traduit par un niveau de disponibilités plus élevé. Toutefois, cette relation ne s’explique pas par le fait que les sociétés japonaises à...

Australia faces the mutually reinforced challenges of boosting labour supply and promoting social inclusion. Labour underutilisation is especially prevalent among groups such as lone parents, people with disability, and Indigenous Australians. These are also groups at greatest risk of social...

Recently, the concept of real options had raised in popularity among scholars. Although, real options allow to analyze measure and value uncertainty which are critical steps in decision making, real options are scarcely used in practice. The complexity of the concept is one of the main reasons...

Ce document synthétise les principaux résultats d'une enquête menée en 1999 auprès d'entreprises industrielles dunkerquoises fonctionnant en continu. Alors que les lois sociales des années 1990 ont conduit à l'extension et à l'aménagement du travail en continu, pour faire face à des...

L'augmentation des coopérations interentreprises dans les années 1980 ne s'est pas accompagnée réellement, dans un premier temps, d'une analyse de la dimension spatiale de ces coopérations. Notre objectif dans cet article, en nous inscrivant dans l'appproche de la proximité, est d'analyser...