The main purpose of the article is to analyze employers' practices in terms of layoffs over the period 1999-2009. Our empirical approach is based on firm dataset from matching worker movements data (EMMO-DMMO) and accounting data (EAE). We want to identify the factors linking the two types of...

In 2008, a new legal termination of long-term contract (CDI) called "the rupture conventionnelle" was enacted. The aim of this article is first to analyze the impact of this new termination on the employers' fire decisions and then to provide empirical evidence of a substitution between the...

The ‘conventional cancelation' is a way for employer and employee to mutually agree for ending the labor contract. Officially, it will permit to raise mutually beneficial agreements and to reduce the judge role. First, what is at stake here is the bargaining capacity of the employee and the...

L'objectif de l'article est d'étudier les pratiques des employeurs en matière de licenciement sur la période 1999-2009. Nous adoptons pour cela une démarche empirique s'appuyant sur un échantillon d'entreprises (environ 10 000) obtenu par l'appariement de données sur les mouvements de...