infonet-economy

Les identités nationales sont à la fois des identités closes, nécessairement closes, et appelées à s'ouvrir à leur autre, à tout ce qui n'est pas elles. Elles sont le berceau nécessaire à l'épanouissement de l'individu comme elles peuvent être sa cage, sa prison ou sa tombe. Cette dialectique, inhérente aux identités tant psychiques que sociales et politiques, est…

The study introduces a distinction between two types of labor mobility: direct job to job changes (which are assumed to be voluntary) and job changes after experiencing an unemployment spell (assumed to be involuntary). Exploiting the close relationship between those two phenomena we adopt a bivariate regression framework for our empirical analysis of data on male individuals in the…

Explaining why the German speaking Swiss were so reluctant about joining the European Economic Area and the French German speaking were so enthusiastic.

The features of a database system specifically designed to support evolution are presented. The design of the F2 system has been deliberately directed toward integration of evolution features and the flexibility of structures at every level. This has leaded to an architecture where the meta-circular organization of the objects management is not an aesthetic facet but a concrete…

Present-day computer-based information systems are increasingly required to be open systems. This means that they must cope with open networks, heterogeneous interoperable hardware and software systems, and, above all, evolving and changing requirements. The CHASSIS project aims to develop a software and methodology framework for (i) the security- and reliability-oriented systematic…