It may be in the interest of low-ability individuals to subsidize the education of high-ability individuals. Sufficient conditions are surprisingly mild: positive externalities in education and complementarity in production between human capital and labor supplied by the low-ability individuals....

The Earnings Supplement Project (ESP) is a multi-site demonstration program that is testing an innovative financial incentive designed to stimulate the re-employment of two groups: displaced workers and repeat users of unemployment insurance (UI). ESP was conceived and is funded by Human...

Cet article commence par une description du systeme d'apprentissage et du lycee professionnel, indispensable a une bonne comprehension du systeme institutionnel de formation professionnelle des jeunes en France (section II). Suit la presentation des donnees dy CEREQ utilisees pour l'evaluation...

Cet expose s'attrade a expliquer les mouvements dans la productivite du travail. Le but de cet ouvrage est de tester les resultats theoriques de Ho rning (1994). Celui-ci propose des mouvements procycliques du "labour hoarding" comme solution aux problemes encourus par les modeles des cycles...

Ce document presente une vue d'ensemble de l'etude que realise l'auteur. Il s'interesse aux comportements des employeurs (recrutement, promotion, gestion de carriere) face a l'acroissement d'education. Sans remettre en cause les effets de l'offre de diplomes, l'etude vise a comprendre pourquoi...

L'auteur demontre que le developpement des pratiques de gestion de la qualite est negativement asssocie a l'evaluation par les D.R.H., du niveau de mobilisation des ressources humaines. Ainsi le lien entre le developpement de certaines pratiques de gestion de la qualite et la perception qu'ont...

Much of the literature on time inconsistency has studied the external commitment devices that individuals use to address their self-control problems: tying oneself to the mast, staying away from temptation, holding illiquid assets, or "asking controls" from others. This paper, by contrast,...

This paper examines the employment and earnings of people convicted of committing serious crimes, focusing on the effects of serving any time in prison and of the length of time served on long-term labor market outcomes. Regression analyses control directly for some of the most important factors...