Cet article étudie l'évolution des performances européennes en matiére d'emploi depuis le début des années quatre vingt dix, en utilisant l'algorithme SOM adapté au traitement de données qui sont à la fois temporelles et spatiales.La carte de Kohonen ainsi obtenue permet d'établir une...

Les marchés financiers sont souvent le lieu de violentes turbulences des cours et un indice de crise - appelé IMS (Index of Market Shocks, voir Maillet et Michel, 2002) - a été récemment introduit pour tenter de quantifier les turbulences de marchés se produisant à l'occasion de ces...

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

The proposals aiming at reducing or making more flexible job protection are built upon the hypothesis according to which firms are forced to adapt toincreasing uncertainty of demand and activity. Analysing firms' behaviour in French industry, this paper shows that the increase in sub-contracting...

This article examines the influence of equity capital ownership on human resource management practices. The empirical analysis uses the 2004-2005 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (REPONSE survey), based on a sample of 2,930 establishments with 20 workers or more, representative of the...

France has witnessed a significant rise in the recourse to sub-contracting over the last twenty years. However the latter is not to be seen as a response to the supposedly growing instability of the economic environment. It is primarily a further stage in the effective subordination of labour to...