This article highlights the importance of power relations in subcontracting relationships and analyzes their impact on firms’ employment management practices. We show that the use of subcontracting creates a chain of inter-firm economic dependency because it leads the principal contractor...

This paper study the effect on employment level of an increase in the specific cost of fixed term contracts. We build a stochastic dynamic model of labour demand where long-term and fixed-term contracts are both available. We found that such a change reduces employment when shocks are transitory...

[fre] Les récentes mesures adoptées par la France, notamment depuis l'ordonnance de 1986, comme le gel des implantations commerciales de plus de 300 m2, traduisent indéniablement une volonté de protéger le petit commerce. Le but de cet article est de proposer un cadre d'analyse des...

[spa] La dinámica asimétrica del empleo durante el ciclo por Corinne Perraudin . Este articulo propone examinar la asimetria ciclica del empleo en Francia, en los Estados Unidos, en Alemania y en Inglaterra a partir de una modelización no lineal univariada. Nuestro trabajo selecciona por ello...