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This international collaborative research project (ergonomics, public health, education sciences) aims to produce knowledge to support social innovations in the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases, both at the level of regulation and dynamics of productive organizations (micro and meso

The ENVIROBIOSOC project's starting point is the acknowledgment of a situation of pluralism in the way the environment is conceived, defined and operationalised in the study of human health and disease through the biological, biomedical and social sciences. The objective is to answer the following

• Objective 1: providing a clear-cut analysis of the cognitive and emotional factors related to the intrinsic cost of dishonesty. This objective is addressed in Task 1. In particular, we plan to study the extent to which the intrinsic cost of cheating is modulated by motivated memory (the fact that

Edible insect consumption in Western countries could become part of a healthier and sustainable food chain, which would aim towards meeting the existent growing food demand, and at the same time, helping with the preservation of the environment. This project aims to accompany nutritional transitions

A first research axis will study the determinants of job quality from the point of view of both firms and workers. This will allow us to highlight new reasons why firms may offer better or poorer-quality jobs, in particular in the dimension of job insecurity and non-standard forms of employment. We

The global financial crisis of 2007-09 uncovered many inadequacies in existing banking system regulations. In response to the severe malfunctioning of mainly Western banking institutions, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision redesigned and tightened the regulatory requirements under which bank

Important mutations are occurring in the structure and geography of derivatives markets. This project sets out to document these mutations; trace their cause to the reform being put in place since 2010; and identify new risks emerging in relation to such mutations. Ten years after the launch of

The human embryo is currently at the center of scientific, social, political and ethical concerns. Its manipulation is a controversial issue in Brazil and France. It highlights the role of the socio-cultural and symbolic processes of medical innovation. The evolution of scientific knowledge and prac

Abstract The aim of this research is to understand how much of wage dynamics relates to human capital accumulation, and how much derives from a frictional matching process at work both within and between firms. In an economy where informational frictions give employers monopsony power, wages do not

We examine the application and review materials of a large, multi-disciplinary, pan-European research funding scheme: EUROpean COllaborative RESearch (EUROCORES) Scheme (2001-2010). EUROCORES promoted investigator-driven, multinational collaborative research in multiple scientific areas and brought

The aim of the Co-MA program is to respond to study the processes and mechanisms driving collaboration and joint innovation after mergers and acquisitions. The project develops a new perspective on synergy and innovation capacity in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by drawing on microfoundations and s

This current study intends to analyze how big data analysts and scientists challenge political communication and political professionalization. Big data may introduce fundamental changes within political work but their impacts remain unknown. What does the introduction of Big data do to political wo

The pharmaceutical industry uses animal life or animal-based materials at different stages of innovation and manufacturing. This is the case, for example, with mice and chimpanzees used as guinea pigs during the innovation phase, or with the fat of porcine or bovine origin used in the manufacture of

In this research project, we intend to reassess fundamental questions in political theory by drawing on workers’ reflexive writings from the beginnings of capitalism to the current digital economy. Throughout history, in situations of induced reflexivity due to the transformations of capitalism an

The TraPlaNum project aims to produce a state of the art and a multidisciplinary analysis of work done through digital platforms. The development of digital platforms disrupts both economic and legal frameworks. Crowdworking is a new form of work performed by ‘the crowd’ through a digital interm

Since the 2008 financial crisis, European governments have implemented numerous reforms on the anticompetitive Product Market Regulation (PMR), which are the laws and rules in network and service industry that may restrict competition and firm choices. These reforms are supported by international or

The aim of this project is to show how social change dynamics operate from practices that are at the margin of social norms. Margins are understood as practices that deviate from prevailing social prescriptions and statistical trends. These are considered in their ambivalent effect on the dominant n

Perhaps the most important development in tax policy globally over the past two decades is the steep decline in nominal corporate income tax rates. This phenomenon is most acute in the European Union where the overall average top nominal corporate tax rate has fallen from 35% to 22% between 1995 and

Non-standard working hours (night, weekend, long hours) are experiencing unprecedented growth and are spreading to many countries and sectors of the economy. While the United States is described as a round-the-clock economy, one in five employees now work regularly at night in Europe, and 42% of Fre

Information asymmetries pervade economic contexts. Job applicants know their ability better than employers, entrepreneurs have more information about their projects than banks, lobbyists are better informed about the scientific consensus around their issues than politicians, food producers understan

There is an old puzzle in art economics: why does art investment systematically underperform equity markets? A possible explanation, proposed by Mandel (2009), is that individuals have three different motives for buying art: investment, direct consumption and signaling. In the later, the owner can e