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...

The ?termination by mutual agreement? is a way for employer and employee to mutually agree for ending the labor contract. Officially, it permits to raise mutually beneficial agreements and to reduce the judge role (litigation?). First, what is at stake here is the bargaining capacity of the...

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...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the implementation of a new open-ended contract termination in 2008 in France, called the rupture conventionnelle (RC), which is a mutually agreed contract termination. More precisely, this paper analyses first the impact of the RC on the...