The paper summarizes the principal empirical findings of the European Unemployment Program. It draws on 10 country studies which utilize the macroeconomic framework set out by Sneessens and Drèze (1986). The main conclusions are as follows: (i) a major problem in Europe is that productivity...

[eng] Wages, demand and unemployment: an international comparison. . The paper presents the estimation of wages and employment equations for most OECD countries. The empirical structure, based upon the work of Layard and Nickell, examines simultaneously the demand of labor, the determination of...