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Heterogeneity matters: labour productivity differentiated by age and skills
Roger, Muriel; Wasmer, Malgorzata - HAL - 2009
This study aims at evaluating the actual profile of marginal productivity across the age groups within the workforce. As age-productivity profile might differ between occupations, we differentiate the workforce simultaneously by skills (low-skilled, high-skilled) and by age (young, middle-aged,...
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Stricter employment protection and firms' incentives to train: The case of French older workers
Messe, Pierre-Jean; Rouland, Bénédicte - HAL - 2012
From French data, this paper uses a difference-in-differences approach combined with propensity score matching to identify the effect of an exogenous change in employment protection among older workers on firm's incentives to provide training. Laying off workers aged 50 and above, French...
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New technologies, workplace organisation and the age structure of the workforce: Firm-level evidence
Aubert, Patrick; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - HAL - 2005
This paper investigates the relationships between new technologies, innovative workplace practices and the age structure of the workforce in a sample of French manufacturing firms. We find evidence that the wage-bill share of older workers is lower in innovative firms and that the opposite holds...
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Management of active ageing in France in businesses: Some case-studies
Gendron, Bénédicte - HAL - 2006
If some European countries started work on age management long ago, several reports confirmed the urgency and the complexity of age management in France. The low participation of French older workers in the labour market was the result of premature exclusion, within a context of high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750757
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Emotional Capital and Older Workers Learning and Transfer of Knowledge Management: “Toward a Better Ageing, Working and Learning Together”
Gendron, Bénédicte - HAL - 2007
Europe is getting older – a simple observation with far-reaching implications. The challenges posed by an aging society are tremendous. As the baby boom generation grows older, it is doubtful that ever-longer retirement will continue to be beneficial and affordable for individuals or the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750788
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Ageing, changes, and quality of working life
Greenan, Nathalie; NARCY, Mathieu; Volkoff, Serge - HAL - 2012
The aim of this chapter is to examine whether company level changes affect differentially the quality of working life according to employees' age. We use data from a French linked employer-employee survey. The quality of working life is captured through three dimensions: the feeling of fair work...
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Are teams less inequality averse than individuals?
He, Haoran; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2014
designs, and we investigate how teams aggregate individual preferences. We find that team decisions reveal less inequality … aversion than individual initial proposals in team decision-making. However, teams are no more selfish than individuals who … decide in isolation. Individuals express strategically more inequality aversion in their initial proposals in team decision …
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Controverses et paradoxes dans l'Europe des brevets au XIXe siècle
Galvez-Behar, Gabriel - HAL - 2011
En 1883, les brevets accordés en France, en Allemagne, au Royaume-Uni et en Belgique représentent 41% des brevets accordés dans le monde, les brevets américains représentant quant à eux 43% du total. L'Europe du Nord-Ouest s'affiche au XIXe siècle comme un des hauts lieux du brevet...
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Does foreign environmental policy influence domestic innovation ? Evidence from the wind industry
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu - HAL - 2011
This paper examines the relative influence of domestic and foreign renewable energy policies on innovation activity in … new capacities by increasing their innovation effort. However, the effect on innovation of the marginal wind turbine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008866174
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Du concept de développement chez F. Perroux aux théories de la performance par le changement organisationnel en sciences de gestion
Azan, Wilfrid - HAL - 2003
Les systèmes de management des risques doivent situer l'action des gestionnaires dans des environnements turbulents. Ceci place le management des risques sur un plan notamment conceptuel. Or, certains cloisonnements et ruptures artificiels peuvent avoir laissé de coté des concepts pertinents....
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