Drawing on data from the French Labour Surveys (2005-2011), this article studies the matching processes via the three main channels in the French labour market: direct applications, networks and public agencies. The job finding channels are analyzed, controlling for the job search channels used....

This paper maps out different conceptions and dynamic accounts of convention developed within game theory, Post Keynesian economics and the économie des conventions. These accounts are distinguished in terms of the way in which they conceive of uncertainty (as probabilistic or radical).

This paper considers whether there has been an increase in mobility in the French labour market over the past 60 years. We use data on 6618 careers from a French survey called Histoire de vie – Construction des identités (INSEE). We find a small increase in mobility mainly due to the...

This article addresses diversity in hiring processes, its reasons and its consequences. Using the French OFER survey on the hiring practices of 3,584 firms in 2005, we investigate how firms organise the selection of job applicants and analyse the outcome of this selection in regard to the...