Cet article analyse conjointement la stratification du marché du travail urbain par type d’entreprise et la discrimination à l’égard des femmes en Chine urbaine pour l’année 1995, à l’aide d’une extension des méthodes de décomposition de type Oaxaca-Blinder. Nous montrons que...

We estimate the productivity- and wage-returns to firm-provided training in a panel of French Firms. We find positive and significant returns to training on productivity. For instance, an increase in training intensity by 150 Euros per worker increases a firms labor productivity by 0.4 %....

Aux États-Unis, les années 1990 consacrent la montée en puissance des fonds de capital-risque comme sources de financement pour les entreprises spécialisées dans les technologies de l'information. Plus précisément, les secteurs des logiciels et des communications reçoivent les montants...

Does dismissal law create a "judicial risk" to which french firms are exposed? The paper discusses the different arguments (Blanchard and Tirole (2003), Cahuc and Kramarz (2004), Munoz-Perez and Serverin (2005)) using the empirical available evidence together with basic tools in economics of...

We consider a segmented labor market characterized by a Shapiro-Stiglitz efficiency wage setting in both sectors. However, the primary sector and the secondary sector differ in the firing cost which induces a wage diffential. We suppose also a heterogeneous labor force characterized by the...

This paper discusses various proposals to handle measures of flexicurity or lifelong learning. A critical reading of their theoretical foundations, and their consequences on the labour market is set out. The claim to give an answer to the unemployment by using these measures is contested. Having...

Job flows (job creations and job destructions) and worker flows (hires and quits) are central to recent analysis of labor market. The scale of gross job flows (creations + destructions) compared to net job flows (creations - destructions) has a part in the renewal of Schumpeterian analysis. It...