En mettant en question la pertinence d'une charte de competences relative au metier des individus a qui un programme de formation s'adresse, comme point de depart de sa structuration et de l'elaboration de son contenu, nous illustrons, par un rapprochement entre le Mouvement Desjardins et...

Le propos de cet article est de montrer comment la division sociale fonctionnelle de la production de savoir -qui conferait a deux modes de production de savoir collectifs et decentralises (la "Republique des Sciences" et le "Royaume de la Technologie") la production respective des deux types de...

In these times of budget cutting, government departments are looking into performance based funding schemes for public institutions, such as universities and hospitals, to obtain more output (research or patient care) for the same amount of total funds. A key difference from other applications...

The past decade has seen the emergence of numerous rigorous impact evaluations of teacher policies. This paper reviews the economic theory and empirical evidence on eight teacher policy goals: (1) setting clear expectations for teachers; (2) attracting the best into teaching; (3) preparing...

This paper examines how ambiguous notions such as "meritocracy" , "equality of opportunity" and "equality of outcomes" can be given a formal content and related to more standard economic concepts such as social mobility, income inequality, and efficiency.