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We run a series of experiments to compare the well known arbitration scheme FOA (Final Offer Arbitration) with a new arbitration scheme, non compulsory, we proposed in a companion paper (Tanimura and Thoron (2008)): ROC (Recursive Offer Conciliation). The two mechanisms are also compared with a...
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This paper focuses on the relationships between remittances and the share of individuals working for less than 2$ US per day. It is based on an original panel dataset containing information related to remittances in about 80 developing countries and to the number of workers being paid less than...
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Acteurs de plus en plus mobilisés dans le processus de prévention des risques psychosociaux, les consultants y ont un rôle décisif. La vision de l'expert totalement objectif et "désintéressée" vole en éclats, l'étude approfondie de leur action mettant en évidence l'existence d'un rôle...
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Par tradition militante, mêlée à un vieux fond de culture marxiste, les défenseurs et promoteurs de l' "économie sociale" la présentent volontiers comme " une alternative au capitalisme " ! Pour rendre leur perspective crédible et montrer que la relève du "mode de production dominant "...
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I describe in this study a generic model of strategic management accounting instrumentation: the strategic scorecards. In order to build this generic model, I review in the existing literature the concepts of Strategic Control and Strategic Management Accounting (SMA). I present the...
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Based on the DADS, a very detailed French database on wages, we show that wage inequalities started to increase in France in the mid-1990s. This phenomenon is limited to the top end of income distribution and concerns mainly the top 0.1%, whose share of total salaries increased from 1.2% to 2%...
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Nombre d'études semblent révéler la tendance récente au recentrage des firmes sur leur cœur de métier, et notamment au recours croissant aux stratégies de désintégration verticale (externalisation d'une activité en amont ou en aval de son activité principale). Dans le même temps...
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In this paper we model the income distribution using a Bayesian approach and a mixture of lognormal densities. The size of the mixture is determined by Chib (1995)'s method. Using the Federal Expenditure Survey data for the United Kingdom, we detect three groups corresponding to the three...
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Il n'y a pas que la défense des intérêts et des jeux de pouvoir qui bloquent le processus de réforme d'une entreprise. Il y a aussi les habitudes de penser, ou ce qu'il convient d'appeler les représentations, qui sont en entreprises les schémas mentaux qui induisent les modes de relations...
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This article describes how the Trade Facilities Act (TFA) and the liquidation of certain government-owned assets spurred the industrial intervention of the Bank of England in the 1920s. What emerges is a much greater role of the Treasury in the Bank of England's industrial intervention than has...
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