Intellectual Property Rights is cutting edge in addressing current debates affecting businesses, industry sectors and society today, and in focusing not only on the enabling welfare effects of IPR systems, but also on some of the possible adverse effects of IPR systems.

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 firms...