[eng] Productivity and quality effects of automatization : a macroeconomic approach. . This paper on automatization and economie growth under lines the specificity of the present reorganization of work in manufacturing industries.. It distinguishes the usual productivity effects from quality...

In many developed countries, the share of wage employment out of the total agricultural labour force has been increasing for the last ten years. Using data from French agricultural censuses, we present an analysis of the factors that influence households' decisions about whether to work on the...

In many developed countries, the share of permanent hired labour in the total agricultural labour force has been increasing in recent years. Using data from the 1988 and 2000 agricultural censuses in France, we analyse the factors that influence households' decisions regarding the use of hired...

The larger the labour market, the more likely firms are to find on this market an individual meeting precisely the requirements of a vacancy and the more likely a job seeker is to find a job offer matching his skills. As a consequence, everything being held equal (in particular, firm size and...

L'hypothèse centrale de ce travail collectif est que la dotation en ressources naturelles et même en capital physique des territoires ruraux n'apparaît pas comme le premier ressort de leur développement. Celui-ci est essentiellement fonction de leur capacité à innover socialement et...

We use detailed survey data from 1986 to analyze 1565 trajectories over 7 years of outgoing individuals with low levels of education to study the effect of a period of unemployment (or inactivity) on the probability of being unemployed (or inactive) a second time. A robust technique and an...

C25, J63.

By disaggregating the Midi-Pyrenees region into 18 different local labour markets, we have highlighted wage differentials which can be completely explained neither by structural effects related to the sectoral distribution of the firms nor by the individual characteristics of the local manpower....

L'hypothèse centrale de ce travail collectif est que la dotation en ressources naturelles et même en capital physique des territoires ruraux n'apparaît pas comme le premier ressort de leur développement. Celui-ci est essentiellement fonction de leur capacité à innover socialement et...