Call for Research Projects
on the topic of Career Paths Security
Deadline for submitting applications: 31st December 2015
Completed applications must be sent exclusively by email to
Andreea Minea (chaire.securisation@gmail.com)
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Presentation of the Call for Projects
Introduction
The Chair Sécurisation des Parcours Professionnels (Security of Career Paths) launches a call for
projects to finance research on topics related to its main object of study. This research can result in a
scientific publication or the organisation of a conference. The Chair Sécurisation des Parcours
Professionnels and its partners show a great interest for the topics listed in Annex 1. Projects
addressing these topics will be considered with priority. But other projects linked to career paths
and security in the labor market will also be considered.
Successful projects will we awarded a maximum of 20 000 € for two years. The Chair can compensate
a release from teaching obligations within this amount. In return, the authors of these projects
commit, under a contract to be signed with the Chair, to:
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publish their work in the working papers series of the Chair.
mention the Chair in the list of their funding resources, both in the working paper and in any
future publications.
meet one or several partners of the Chair at the beginning of the project; if the topic is of
interest to them.
participate in a seminar of presentation of their work before the final publication, such as the
seminars organised by the CREST or the seminars organised by the DARES.
The projects will be evaluated and selected firstly by the steering committee of the Chair composed
of Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo and Francis Kramarz, as well as of two representatives
of the Chair’s partners to date, every vote counting equally. The steering committee will transmit its
proposal of selected projects to the members of the Chair’s policy committee for validation. The
results of the selection process will be given to the candidates no later than the end of February 2016.
Application procedure
A complete application must include:
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The current form filled in, including most importantly the identification of the project
manager and the full description of the research work considered;
The full and detailed budget by filling in the table enclosed in section 5 and in accordance
with the reimbursement conditions specified in Annex 2;
A CV for each participant in the project (maximum 2 pages per CV).
Completed applications must be sent exclusively by email
(chaire.securisation@gmail.com) no later than the 31st December 2015.
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to
Andreea
Minea
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Identity card of the project
Title of the project (provisional title of the article or title of the conference)
Summary of the project
(half a page maximum)
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3.
People involved in the project
Project manager
A coordinator has to be designated by the research team. He or she will be the unique signatory of
the contract with the Chair Sécurisation des Parcours Professionnels.
First Name, Last Name
Institution
Department
Address
Email
Phone number
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List of people involved in the project (co-authors, co-organisers)
Last Name
First Name
Institution
Department
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Email
4.
Description of the project
Context
(half a page maximum)
Objectives
(half a page maximum)
Methodology, and type of data if appropriate
(a page maximum)
Expected contributions of the research
(half a page maximum)
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5.
Budget
Reimbursements will be done according to the rules laid down by the Chair and by the Fondation du
Risque (see rules in Annex 2 below). The provisional budget of the project supported by the Chair will
be subject to a convention with the researchers.
Decomposition of the full budget
Present the full budget of the project, including all expenses that can be funded from other sources.
Total of the expense
financed by the
Chair (€ including
taxes)
Type of expense
Total of the expense
financed from a
different source (€
including taxes)
Staff costs (doctoral students, post-doctoral students,
research assistants)
Release from teaching obligations
Purchase of services and goods
Organisation of conferences,
(including reception costs)
workshops
Rereading, proofreading of papers in English
Database entry services
Software
Computer
Data purchase
Purchase of books, documentation
Mission costs
Travel costs for the project manager and for
the people in charge of the project (coauthors, co-organizers)
Travel costs for people invited to the
conferences
Total by funding source
Any comments or justification of budget items
(half a page maximum)
Other funding sources
If the project has other funding sources, please specify the origin of funding for the other expenses.
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Annex 1- Topics of interest to the Chair
The Chair Sécurisation des Parcours Professionnels and its partners have a special interest for the
topics presented below. The projects addressing these topics will be considered with priority.
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Support for jobseekers
1.1. Starting/Taking over a business: a springboard to employment?
Can starting or taking over a business constitute a durable solution for unemployment and for which
categories of people? What are the major restraints for this? Efficiency of aid and support for
jobseekers in the creation or takeover of a company.
1.2. What happens during the first weeks following registration the Public Employment
Service?
What happens before the first meeting with the Public Employment Service for the jobseeker? Who
are those who start searching for a job during this period? Who are those who find a job during this
period?
1.3. Relations and contracts between labour market intermediaries:
Analysis of the relations and contracts between labour market intermediaries: co-contracting and
subcontracting of capacity or of specialty, research of an « optimal contract » with the private
operators coherent with the nature of the relation established.
1.4. Profiling of jobseekers
What are the conditions for efficiency, and the impact on the exit from unemployment?
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Parameters of the unemployment insurance
2.1. How do compensation parameters influence on the behaviour of job search?
Relationship between the replacement rate, the duration of benefits, incentive schemes and return
to employment. Optimality of compensation parameters, especially around the business cycle.
Interactions between the modalities of unemployment insurance and the other labour market
policies/regulations.
2.2. Partial unemployment, a prompt response to the need for flexibility?
In periods of declining activity, the company can adjust the volume of worked hours by reducing its
workforce in interim or fixed-term contracts, imposing leave, reducing overtime hours, modulating
work time, training its employees... These solutions are not sufficient anymore when the decline in
activity is too important. How does partial unemployment allows an extra adjustment? Can it have
the unintended effect to create a disincentive for the pursuit of productivity gains?
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3.
Labour market segmentation
3.1. The determinants of the nature of job offers (choice of contract type, modalities)
The objective would be to grasp, at the onset, during the formulation of job offers, how the
contractual segmentation of the labour market appears: the determinants of the choice of contract
type and their evolution. The database on job offers of the Groupe ALPHA (Sodie) could be used for
this purpose (subject to review of the technical feasibility).
3.2. The relationship between atypical contracts and unemployment
What is the impact of short contracts or part-time on time spent in unemployment? What is the
quality and the sustainability of any return to work after such episodes?
3.3. The use of part-time
In which circumstances is part-time used by companies or requested by employees? What is its
impact on the professional paths?
4. Training for jobseekers: efficiency according to the concerned public, the
content, the timing and the modalities
Should training be oriented depending on the short-term need of labour for companies, by which
indicators? What type of training should be privileged: qualifying training, certified training or
training focused on specific or more general job skills? What is the impact of the initial level of
training of the person on the efficiency of training? When should training occur in the unemployment
cycle and more generally in the life cycle? How to extend the validation of skills?
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Technical progress, international trade and reorganisation of the labour
market
5.1. Company liquidation
What are the consequences of business liquidation on career paths? What are the trends? What
measures are efficient to limit the effects of business liquidation?
5.2. Polarization of tasks
What is the magnitude of the polarization of tasks in France and abroad? What are the trends? Does
this job polarization emerge from technical progress, international trade?
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Annex 2 – Terms and rules of reimbursement for the selected projects
In order to be reimbursed by the Chair, the expenses associated with the selected projects from the
call of projects must be subject to a contract (“convention”) between the FDR, the Chair and the
researchers. Only expenses foreseen in this contract can be supported by the Chair, for a total
amount of maximum 20 000 € including taxes, for two years. The maximum amounts foreseen for
each expense category have to be mentioned in this contract. All expenses receipts will have to be
provided before reimbursement.
In all cases, the following rules will be applied so that incurred expenses can be reimbursed.
Missions in France and abroad and foreign visitors
Expense type
Accommodation
Place
Maximum amount
Receipt type
Province
100 euros
bill
Paris and suburbs
150 euros
bill
Abroad
Per diem
none
France
Lump sum of 20
euros/meal
none
Abroad
Per diem
none
Train
Real costs
ticket
Plane
Economy class
ticket
France
Real costs
ticket
Abroad
Per diem
none
France
Real costs
bill
Abroad
Real costs
bill
Real costs
bill
Real costs, economy class
bill
Meal
Public transports
Taxi from/to
airport or train
station
Visa fees
Car rental
Abroad
Per diem and exchange rate
Link for per diem (group 1) :
http://www.economie.gouv.fr/dgfip/mission_taux_chancellerie/frais
Link for the exchange rate:
http://www.economie.gouv.fr/dgfip/taux_chancellerie_change
Reception costs
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Noon: 25 euros per person
Evening: 40 euros per person
Purchase of goods or services
The purchase of computer equipment must be justified by the need of substantial data analysis and
the lack of sufficient material available for the researcher to proceed. There may be no new purchase
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of computer equipment in the three years following the previous purchase for the same researcher
except in the case of force majeure (accident, theft). The maximum amount for the purchase of
computers is fixed at 3 000,00 € including taxes.
Mission expenses corresponding to expenses incurred by people other than the Project Manager
(people invited to a conference, or a co-author of the project) can be reimbursed directly to these
people. In this case, the invoices must be issued on the name of the person to be reimbursed, and
must be accompanied by an expenses form signed by the Project Manager validating that the
expense is related to the project and specifying the budgetary category to be charged, as well as the
bank account to which the reimbursement transfer will be made.
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