Nous modelisons les effets de la concurrence du marche des produits sur les couts de delegation et y allons de deux grandes previsions d'ordre empirique. D'abord, la concurrence, en diminuant les couts de delegation, accroit nettement l'importance qu'attachent les entreprises a l'amelioration de...

We model the effects of product market competition on agency costs, and develop two main empirical predictions. First, competition, by reducing agency costs, unambiguously increases the importance firms place on quality improvements. This leads to higher powered incentives, and in turn to...

Le present article resume les conclusions de le document de recherche intitulee: Instabilite des heures de travail au Canada. Les auteurs de nombreuses etudes des heures de travail ont tire d'importantes conclusions des resultats des enquetes transversales. Par exemple, a tout moment donne, la...

Numerous studies of working hours have drawn important conclusions from cross-sectional surveys. For example, the share of individuals working long hours is quite large at any given point in time. Moreover, this appears to have increased over the past two decades, raising the call for policies...

A l'aide d'un echantillon national representatif d'etablissements, nous avons cherche a determiner si l'adoption de certaines pratiques de travail equivalentes (PTE) a tendance a reduire le taux de demissions. Dans l'ensemble, notre analyse fournit des preuves solides d'une association negative...

Using a nationally representative sample of establishments, we have examined whether selected alternative work practices (AWPs) tend to reduce quit rates. Overall, our analysis provides strong evidence of a negative association between these AWPs and quit rates among establishments of more than...

Le present document porte sur le nombre d'heures de travail aux Etats'Unis et au Canada au cours de la periode allant de 1979 a 2000. Nous constatons qu'un ecart s'est creuse durant les annees 80 et s'est accentue considerablement dans les annees 90. Nous examinons la possibilite que cet ecart...

This paper investigates annual working hours in the United States and Canada over the period 1979 to 2000. The study finds that a working hours gap opened in the 1980s and expanded substantially in the 1990s. It investigates the possibility that labour supply differences, specifically (1)...

We provide recent evidence on job characteristics by firm size in Canada. Using a variety of household surveys, we assemble a wide set of facts on wages, fringe benefits and work schedules in small and large firms. We show that the wage gap between small and large firms has reamined fairly...

The increase in earnings inequality among men in particular in Canada has been well documented. This paper adds to our knowledge of inequality trends by addressing three issues. First, what has happened to earnings inequality among the employed population in the 1990s? We find that earnings...