Should education become more vocational or more general? We address this question in two steps. We first build and solve a two-sector matching model with generalists and specialists. Generalists pursue jobs in both sectors; however, they come second in job queues. Specialists seek for jobs in a...

La divergence des buts représente un risque majeur pour la performance de l'entreprise. Sur la base d'une méthodologie originale, nous montrerons, à partir de l'étude du cas d'une unité opérationnelle appartenant à une grande entreprise de service française, comment le chercheur peut...

This article analyzes the different phases the Information Systems--Sociology relationship has gone through and points out some specific features of sociologists and Information Systems scientists in their conceptualization of Information Technology (IT). It shows that both academic fields...

What is the knowledge needed to allow an industrial merge in a very poor area: that is the question of the paper. The paper look what is the experience and education of bosses and workers participating the first generation of private owned industry in a non industrial area that became the world...

L'Afrique fait depuis quelques mois les titres de la presse économique internationale : certains pays ont un fort taux de croissance, les Chinois y investissent massivement et certaines firmes multinationales occidentales envisagent de s'y développer. Sans envisager que les pays d'Afrique...

Cette comparaison internationale fondée sur les monographies de trente entreprises et douze établissements, offre une dimension nouvelle et concrète à la compréhension des relations formation et emploi, organisation du travail et éducation. Elle met clairement en évidence les grandes...

This paper aims at explaining why countries with comparable levels of education still experience notable differences in terms of R&D and innovation. High-skilled migration, ultimately linked to differences in R&D costs, might be responsible for the persistence of such a gap. In fact, in a model...

This article aims at investigating the interplay between environmental quality, health and development. We consider an OLG model, where human capital dynamics depend on the current environment, through its impact on children's school attendance. In turn, environmental quality dynamics depend on...

Following Ben-Porath (1967), the influence of life expectancy on education has attracted much attention. Whereas existing growth models rely on an education decision made either by the child or by his parent, we revisit the Ben-Porath effect when the education is the outcome of a bargaining...

We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There are many potential channels for this effect, although, as usual, identifying a causal relationship is difficult. We appeal to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map...