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...

[fre] Le propos de cette recherche est de relier l'examen des licenciements économiques à celui des formes de gestion de la main-d'œuvre. L'analyse par branche d'activité des licenciements économiques, sur la période 1980-1985, montre que les activités les plus représentatives d'une...

Many common features of the legal regulation of the employment relationship have attracted little attention, although they are to be found in contracts with possible litigation, as for instance the possibility for the employer to reduce the mobility of the employee or to prevent them from...

From the construction of a French data base of 309 employment contracts, we analyse current practices in firms, their manpower management methods and their use of the law in the drafting of employment contracts. We present a typology of ‘employment contracts' based on different indicators...

[eng] The current transformations of French labour market intermediaries regulation increase the interest in an accurate analysis of these intermediaries’ role and their positioning in the market. The French Ofer survey (Offre d’emploi et recrutement, 2005) on the recruitment practices of...

Through several reports, the European Commission stressed the view that the constitutive rules of liberal professions might be illegimate protections against competition : therefore, as an example, alleviating the traditional rules organizing the profession of lawyers within a professional order...