and youth employment services enhanced. This Working Paper relates to the 2013 OECD Economic Review of France (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/France). …

nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace …. Despite long working hours, labour utilisation is only average due to structurally low employment rates, particularly at both … ends of the age spectrum, with some marked regional differences. The female employment rate is especially low, in part due …

Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in … enforced remains to be seen. For the time being, de facto employment protection is far less than de jure, with an enduring … wages, nor are they effectively enforced. During the recent slowdown, average wages adjusted rapidly and employment was soon …

decade, the 2000s, this article considers employment trends and policy developments relevant to parents’ and carers⠅

women’s employment is their disproportionate concentration in the public sector, and this helps to explain the advances … on local employment opportunities. …

worked and employment. We conduct dynamic simulations of the crisis period to assess how surprising the reaction of the … labour market really was. We argue that the most important precondition for the minor reaction of employment during this …

, Japan, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and the USA, between 1970 and 2010. We find that foreign direct investment, trade openness …