The purpose of this paper is to answer the question: is it in the best interest of firms to introduce profit-sharing as an incentive for wage-earners to work harder? A theoretical model is developed, its results are compared with those of an empirical work, using a panel of 700 industrial firms....

[fre] Comparer les marchés du travail. . La performance française en termes de taux de chômage a été très décevante, et le demeure. Le but de cette conférence est de discuter des facteurs explicatifs souvent présentés comme étant à la racine du problème. Le texte rappelle d'abord...

[eng] rates, prices of crude-oil and raw materials) and in the economic policy on the economic crisis of 1974-1975. One of the main conclusions of the study is the fact that, even if there had been no disturbance coming from the foreign countries, the french economy would heve moved towards a...