This paper attempts to analyze a technical change at the industry level by rendering explicit the investment behavior of the firms. The authors develop a model based on the assumption that production technology can be either modern or traditional. The probability that a firm modernizes is...

[eng] Productivity and quality effects of automatization : a macroeconomic approach. . This paper on automatization and economie growth under lines the specificity of the present reorganization of work in manufacturing industries.. It distinguishes the usual productivity effects from quality...

In many developed countries, the share of wage employment out of the total agricultural labour force has been increasing for the last ten years. Using data from French agricultural censuses, we present an analysis of the factors that influence households' decisions about whether to work on the...

In many developed countries, the share of permanent hired labour in the total agricultural labour force has been increasing in recent years. Using data from the 1988 and 2000 agricultural censuses in France, we analyse the factors that influence households' decisions regarding the use of hired...

[ger] Die Theorie des Leistungslohns und die von der erbrachten Leistung unabhängigen Ungleichheiten : eine Schätzung auf der Grundlage der Untersuchung zur beruflichen Ausbildung . und Qualifikation, . von Jean-Michel Plassard, Gabriel Tahar.. . Dieser Artikel zielt darauf ab, die...

The larger the labour market, the more likely firms are to find on this market an individual meeting precisely the requirements of a vacancy and the more likely a job seeker is to find a job offer matching his skills. As a consequence, everything being held equal (in particular, firm size and...

L'hypothèse centrale de ce travail collectif est que la dotation en ressources naturelles et même en capital physique des territoires ruraux n'apparaît pas comme le premier ressort de leur développement. Celui-ci est essentiellement fonction de leur capacité à innover socialement et...

We analyse the impact of density on labour markets when firms and workers are heterogeneous. Using the results of a survey carried out in the French Midi-Pyrénées region, we show that, for comparable sizes and sectors, recruiting firms in low-density areas experience more difficulties in...