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We investigate the relationship between product innovation and firm survival for a sample of 121 firms in a high-tech industry. We find that location near the technological frontier is an important determinant of firm survival. Firms located near the frontier are also more likely to be acquired...

We use comparable micro level panel data for 14 countries and a set of identically specified empirical models to investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now familiar from the literature: Exporters are more...

Since 1995, French governments implemented a specific strategy aiming at lowering unemployment or inactivity of so called unskilled workers, in fact of low wage workers. This strategy used two tools: cuts in employers’ social contributions reduce companies’ costs for hiring low-wage workers;...

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This paper checks if differences in market size can explain the retardation of the Industrial Revolution in France compared to Britain. It uses an exceptional source on French domestic trade in a variety of goods in the late eighteenth century: the Tableaux du Maximum. The first part presents...

Studies of lobbying try to determine the influence and power of non-governmental actors on public policy. Although influence is very difficult to measure empirically, many continue to push for better research design to solve the problem. Through case studies of business-government relations in...

Les années 1990 ont vu se succéder des « premières » dans le domaine des biotechnologies médicales (diagnostic préimplantatoire, thérapie génique, clonage), faisant passer des thèmes de la science-fiction à des enjeux politiques majeurs et soulevant alors de vifs débats sur la...

Cet article questionne les théories sur l'expérience de la mobilité ascendante. Pour définir une perspective théorique permettant de prendre en compte la complexité des transformations identitaires qu'implique le changement de statut social, l'auteur s'appuie sur ses travaux qualitatifs....

L’Allemagne et la France sont considérées dans la littérature comme des archétypes de l’Etat social sans travail. Dans le contexte de la crise économique, les deux pays se sont engagés à partir du milieu des années 1970 dans une stratégie de partage de l’emploi, qui en...