[fre] En nous appuyant sur une reconstruction des grilles indiciaires des fonctionnaires territoriaux, qui s'appliquent aux éboueurs et chefs d'équipe du nettoiement, échelon par échelon, de 1977 à 2004, nous montrons que les rémunérations brutes réelles des éboueurs de la mairie de...

Using a reconstruction of the pay scales of public-sector teachers from 1960 until 2004, in primary, secondary, and higher education, we show that the net real value of the careers of some categories of teachers, defined as the discounted expected sum of future net real wages, has decreased by...

We propose a model of strikes in a relational (or self-enforcing) contract framework. The employer has private information about firm profitability, proposes a wage and a bonus, and can outsource part of the production, in each period. The union can either go on strike or reduce the worker's...

We model cooperation between an employer and a workers' union as an equilibrium in an infinitely repeated game with discounting and imperfect monitoring. The employer has private information about firm profitability. The model explains the incidence and duration of strikes, as well as the...