This article underlines the continuous trend of social and organizational changes in firms. It intends to analyze this « movement » as a specific, long-standing process, instead of a new structure appearing in the organization. This text relies on the theoretical perspectives of the sociology...

The aim of this article is to analyse the question of career interruptions and to evaluate their impact on pension retirement for French private sector workers. Using the last French survey on households' wealth (2003-2004), we first study the career set-backs for individuals born between 1937...

This paper considers the identification and estimation of hedonic models. We establish that in an additive version of the hedonic model, technology and preferences are generically nonparametrically identified from data on demand and supply in a single hedonic market. The empirical literature...

The aim of the paper is to analyze the impact of heterogeneous beliefs in an otherwise standard competitive complete market economy. The construction of a consensus probability belief, as well as a consensus consumer, are shown to be valid modulo an aggregation bias, which takes the form of a...

This paper investigates the impact of innovative workplace practices including job rotation and quality standards on occupational safety and mental strain. It uses a unique French dataset drawn from the 1998 Working Conditions survey, which provides information on individual workers for the year...