The participation rate and working hours: Differentiated impacts on the unemployment rate
By Bruno Ducoudré and Pierre Madec In the course of the crisis, most European countries reduced actual working hours to a greater or lesser extent […]
Employment
Which new path for raising labour productivity?
By Bruno Ducoudré and Eric Heyer The industrialized countries are experiencing what seems to be a persistent slowdown in the growth of labour productivity since […]
Short-term contracts: Not all taxes are the same
By Bruno Coquet, OFCE and IZA Short-term contracts are useful for the proper functioning of an economy, but in France their expansion, together with shortening […]
European unemployment insurance
By Léo Aparisi de Lannoy and Xavier Ragot The return of growth cannot eradicate the memory of how the crisis was mismanaged at the European […]
The new labour inequalities. Why jobs are polarizing
By Gregory Verdugo What is job polarization? Over the past three decades, work has taken a new turn. While the post-World War II period saw a […]
Trends in labour force participation rates in Europe during the Great Recession: The role of demographics and job polarization
By Guillaume Allègre and Gregory Verdugo In Europe as in the United States, employment fell considerably during the Great Recession. Moreover, over the last few […]
Beyond the unemployment rate. An international comparison since the crisis
By Bruno Ducoudré and Pierre Madec According to figures from the French statistics institute (INSEE) published on 12 May 2017, non-agricultural commercial employment in France increased […]
What is the initial assessment of Germany’s minimum wage?
By Odile Chagny (IRES) and Sabine Le Bayon A year and a half after introducing a statutory minimum wage, the German Commission in charge of adjusting […]
Unemployment: beyond the (good) figures from France’s job centre
Analysis and Forecasting Department (France team) The 60,000 person decline in March for the number of people registered in Category A at France’s Pôle emploi […]
Matteo Renzi’s Jobs Act: A very guarded optimism
By Céline Antonin At a time when the subject of labour market reform has aroused passionate debate in France, Italy is drawing some initial lessons […]