An incomplete markets life-cycle model with indivisible labour makes career lengths and human capital accumulation respond to labour tax rates and government supplied non-employment benefits. We compare aggregate and individual outcomes in this individualistic incomplete markets model with those...

This Paper describes the changes in the composition of the labour force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...

Differences in the rate of population growth between developed and developing countries have potentially important implications for patterns of trade, migration, and the distribution of the gains from economic activity, both within and between nations. This paper focuses on migration-related...

La recherche traite du processus d'implantation de programme de qualite totale dans deux entreprises du secteur de la metalurgie auxquels les ouvriers et les syndicats participent de facon active. Nous voyons comment l'innovation est intentionnellement creee et diffusee parmi les acteurs...

L'objectif de cette recherche etait de porter un jugement distancie sur la qualite des emplois dans les micro-entreprises soutenues par la micro-finance, cette derniere etant caracterisee par des investissemens de moins de 50 000 $ provenant de sources non-traditionnelles de nature publique ou...

Despite the increasing focus on labour market dynamics, little is known about either the quality of the underlying data or the appropriatenessof the standard methodologies frequently used to analyse labour market dynamics in Europe (the retrospective and matched files approaches). This paper is...

Le present document est consacre a un examen i) du role et de l'importance des capacites innovatrices en tant que determinants de la performance et du comportement en matiere d'exportation et ii) du lien entre l'exportation et la creation d'emploi.

This paper examines the effect of technological change on the relative demand for skilled workers across Canadian industries. Using data from a number of Canadian labour market surveys, the paper explores two questions: (1) has skill intensity risen across industries over the 1981-94 period; and...

Cette etude porte sur le processus de decision et d'orientation mis en place par les femmes qui souhaitent integrer ou reintegrer le monde du travail apres une absence plus au moins importante.