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Over five millions workers are employed in unskilled jobs in France. At the core of socio-productive challenges, they need to cope with environmental changes. However, the ways of building professional pathways are far from certain while they are facing the challenge of taking their own career in ha

Industrialcitizenshiprediscovered: the workrootings of politicalagency, past and present Is‘industrial citizenship’ an outdated concept? This project proposes to give a negative answer to this question by exploring how industrial citizenship has always changed, following the transformations of ec

The purpose of green innovation is to generate – with limited natural and energy resources – durable products with lower energy consumption and/or improved environmental quality. Green innovation can be pro-active, when it is guided by the cognitive traits of individuals and societies. GrICRiS wan

The project "Financial Infrastructure: Risks and Regulation" aims at studying the new regulatory framework in the organization of exchanges between financial institutions, called financial infrastructure. Following the financial crisis of 2008, major reforms of the financial market infrastructure ha

In a complex economic environment, managing risk is a key aspect of economic decisions, and it has a huge impact on economic development and inequalities. Risk management is mould by two main factors: the level of protection in case of bad shocks, and the available information about the economic env

A consensus among economists and practitioners recognises the contribution of the university-generated knowledge to economic growth. Academic knowledge plays a central role in generating disruptive discoveries leading to radical innovations. The paths through which university-generated knowledge rea

The project is about the polarization of employment, a long-term phenomenon observed since the beginning of the 1980s, whereby high-skilled jobs and low-skilled jobs experience marked growth while intermediate jobs (so-called “routine” professions) disappear. Part 1 aims to document this empirical

Test emerging paradigms that view gender as a non-binary system, free from the postulate of the human sexual dimorphism and propose new modelizations that account for human diversity Ongoing. The impact of the project is substantial not only on the scientific field, but also on the social field, by

This project of french parliamentarians is embedded in a context of evolutions affecting the functionning and composition of the Parliament : we can notably cite the easier access to open data about legislators' activity, the increasing role of watchdog of the civil society, and the new obligations

The Tangier region, opposite Gibraltar, has experienced for the last twenty years an exponential boom in industrial wage labor, associated with strong migration movements, internal and external in Morocco and the establishment of «free zones«, where many large international companies have set up, pa

The project tackles three main issues. The first one is creating knowledge about future scenarios regarding labor mobility and migration in Europe. These scenarios depend on both natives’ perceptions of the value of immigration, and political support towards an open migration policy. The second one

The general objective of this project is to understand how new information and communication technologies affect market exchange, access to credit and ultimately social welfare. The project is divided into two principal axes: the objective of Axis 1 is to analyze the potential effects of the issuanc

The research carried out in this program aims to shed a new light on the issues raised by the future of adoption, the conditions for the use of assisted reproductive technologies, the legal framework for surrogacy and the use of biogenetic knowledge. The goal is to renew the study of contemporary ki

This research program proposes several projects to understand the mechanisms at play. Conducting micro econometric analysis theoretically grounded using detailed firm-product data for several countries, this research program explores the heterogeneous effects of international trade on firm performan

The objective of the project is to understand whether platform-based financial intermediation could lead in the future to a more efficient and stable financial intermediation or whether it would suffer from the same information asymmetries problems as traditional intermediaries. In particular, we ad

The project «Syndicalisme au quotidien en Afrique« (Syndicaf) brings together anthropologists, historians and politicians who will study trade unionism since the end of the colonial period in three countries: Burkina Faso, Senegal and Sudan. A little-studied subject, trade unionism nevertheless c

The POLAL project questions the evolutions of contemporary public policies. It associates five research units: CSO, IRISSO, CMH, CERPAS and IDEES. The project explores two sets of questions, drawing upon the results established by the literature on recent changes in public intervention, regarding ho

The project aims to study the impact of some important changes on sickness absences and their consequences on firm’s practices and public policies. The first part of the project assesses the impact of sick leave insurance in the French private sector that took place in 2008.The second component aims

This project aims to better characterize the cognitive processes involved in overcoming cognitive biases in creativity and to determine to what extent it is possible to develop set interventions to help a creative leader to overcome these biases in industry. Using an experimental approach, this proj

The objective of the project is to develop and consolidate the concept of the creative capacities of organizations and to identify the foundations of creative capacities, in the form of processes, routines and organizational factors, that enable the transformation of companies into more creative org

We propose to study how the exit or downsizing of local incumbent firms due to an economic crisis or to a competence-destroying technological shift in a region industry of specialization affect regional knowledge-networks and economic competitiveness. This proposal comprises two sub-projects. In t