We give an axiomatic foundation to the updating rule proposed by [Sarin, R. and Wakker, P. P. (1998). Revealed likelihood and knightian uncertainty. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 16(3):223-250.] for CEU preferences. This rule is dynam- ically consistent but non-consequentialist, since forgone...

At the end of working life, as well as reducing unemployment benefits, the unemployment-insurance agency could apply pension tax instead of wage tax. First, the pension tax provides greater incentives as the value of re-employment is tax-free. Second, the short job duration before retirement...

This paper provides a mapping of quality of work and measures its evolution between 1995 and 2005 by using European Working Conditions Surveys. With a multilevel modelling, we assess the sensitivity of observed trends to “composition effects” and “country effects”. Results suggest a...

Despite a continuing interest in the compared efficiency of labor-managed and conventional firms, only a handful of comparative empirical studies exist. These studies suggest that labor-managed firms have the same productivity levels as conventional ones, but organize production differently....

The distribution of wages varies with workers’age. In this article we build a model able to explain this evolution by taking into account two channels: the evolution of the wage game described in Burdett and Mortensen (1998), and the evolution of the workers’productivity within a match. The...

La Mission Animation de la Recherche DARES du Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Santé (MAR-DARES) a lancé au cours de l'été 2009 un appel d'offre intitulé « Evaluation des effets de l’aide financière aux employeurs du secteur des Hôtels-cafés-restaurants dans le cadre de la...

En août 2004 a été mis en place une aide à l'emploi spécifique aux entreprises du secteur Hôtel-Cafés-Restaurants (HCR). Ce dispositif relativement complexe couvrant la période 2004 à 2009 repose sur une exonération forfaitaire variable selon le secteur d'activité, le niveau des...