Cette recherche s'inscrit dans la continuité d'une intervention majeure en ergonomie participative au sujet des maux de dos affectant les manutentionnaires, réalisée à la Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) en 1989-1990 par une équipe de chercheurs financée par l'IRSST. Cette recherche...

Les performances nordiques – notamment danoises – en matière d’emploi mais aussi de taux de pauvreté ou d’inégalités suscitent depuis plusieurs années l’intérêt des chercheurs et des responsables politiques français. Elles sont souvent rapportées à la « flexicurité », au...

In this paper, we consider a theoritical model helping to provide a new insights into the functioning of moroccan labor market. The model examines the impact of imperfect competition among firms with access to specific technologies on the emergence of the new modern economy.The The emergence of...

The role of the minimum wage as « standard indicator » of public employment policies made a lot of controversy in the literature. The last few years, the issue renewed interest in the distributions offset angle, widening inequality gap and the emergence of insecurity in the workplace....

The role of the minimum wage as a "standard indicator" of public employment policies has been the subject of much controversy in the economic literature. In recent years, the question has gained renewed interest in terms of the income inequality and the emergence of new employment relationships....

Segmentation is a specific feature of urban labor markets in developing countries. This research strive to detect the factors that determines women's and men's participation behaviors, occupational choices, and earnings in segmented urban labor market of Morocco. It draws upon a previous study...

The paper focuses on the effects of formal and informal on-the-job training on wages and promotions for men and women. For that purpose, we use the 1999-2000 Canadian Worplace and Employee Survey (WES). Using a simulated maximum likelihood, we estimate a recursive trivariate probit that...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the school-to-work transition process of young Canadians, particularly individuals with low levels of education, and to situate it in the context of the evolution in the value of a high school diploma over the 1981-1996 period, conditional on not...

Dans cet article, nous évaluons le positionnement des médecins généralistes en comparant leurs revenus à ceux de salariés situés dans le haut de la hiérarchie salariale : les cadres supérieurs. Les syndicats de médecins évoquent régulièrement la durée des études de médecine, les...

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 %....