L'analyse économique des conventions du travail

Robert Salais

Revue Économique, 1989, vol. 40, issue 2, 199-240

Abstract: [eng] The economic analysis of labour conventions. . Even by taking the concepts of authority, contract or incitation, the theories of market encounter many unsolved difficultes when they try to extent the market patterns to the labour relation. The article emphasizes that the labour relation is built on a compromise between two principles of equivalence, the first one trading wage against future work time, the second one putting as equivalent work time and labour product. The author attempts to reinterpret the labour relation in terms of labour conventions ; two conventions are introduced : the convention of productivity and the convention of unemployment. Economie features and rules of these conventions are analysed and illustrated by some examples. Finally one considers to what extent the Keynes' General Theory offers a suitable theoretical framework to the labour conventions. [fre] L'analyse économique des conventions du travail. . La relation de travail est exemplaire des difficultés que rencontre l'extension des théories du marché, que ce soit par le biais de l'autorité, du contrat ou de l'incitation. L'article souligne que la relation de travail repose sur un compromis entre deux principes d'équivalence, l'un marchand salaire-temps de travail futur, l'autre non marchand temps-produit du travail. Il propose de la réinterpréter en termes de conventions du travail. Deux conventions sont introduites : la convention de productivité et la convention de chômage. Leurs caractéristiques économiques sont analysées, ainsi que les règles les instrumentant, et illustrées d'exemples. On examine enfin en quoi la Théorie générale de Keynes offre un cadre théorique susceptible d'intégrer les conventions du travail.

Date: 1989
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