In this note, we investigate the necessary condition for a firm to be able to move from Tayloristic to ohlistic organization of work, whatever the economic conditions and the incentives to do it: that workers have the ability to allocate their work-time to several tasks.

We build a model that takes into consideration the evolution of health over the life cycle and its consequences on individual optimal choices. In this framework, the effect of environmental taxation are not limited to the traditional negative crowding-out and positive productivity effects. We...

This article shows that with time separable preferences (between consumption and leisure), the environmental tax enhances the long run accumulation of human capital because labor supply (i) only depends on wage and not on the level of consumption and (ii) influences the returns to education....

[fre] Spécialisation et polyvalence des travailleurs. Une représentation microéconomique. . Nous proposons une représentation microéconomique de l'organisation du travail mise en œuvre par les entreprises, où l'organisation du temps de travail choisie par l'employeur, pour chaque...

This paper studies how firms choose their organization of work, i.e. how they assign heterogenous workers to different production tasks. It demonstrates the existence of different strategies of work organization which depend on the workers? ability to acquire new competence by performing a...

This article demonstrates that when finite lifetime is introduced in a Lucas (1988) growth model where the source of pollution is physical capital, the environmental policy may enhance the growth rate of a market economy, while pollution does not influence educational activities, labor supply is...

This note shows that the assumptions about the abatement technology modify the impact of the environmental taxation on the long-run growth driven by human capital accumulation à la Lucas (1988), when lifetime is finite. Whereas no impact of the environmental policy on long-run growth is found...

In a two-period overlapping generations model, this paper demonstrates that the relationship between environmental taxation and economic activity (output level and output growth) becomes inverted-U shaped when the detrimental impact of pollution on health and the private decision of each...

We revisit the influence of environmental policy on economic activity taking into account the impact of pollution on morbidity and its effect on the labor productivity age-profile. We find that the negative effect of environmental policy on the standard of living is modified by two opposite...