This paper deals with the consequence of public employment on labor market performances in 17 OECD countries over the … period 1960-2000. It is argued that public employment had an important crowding out e¤ect on the private sector and increased … the unemployment rate over this period. More precisely, empirical evidence suggests that the creation of one public job …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

This paper analyses unemployment and employment dynamics in the urban Mexican labour market. We use amethod to … transitions between sectors; and the transitions from the two types of employment to unemployment. The model is estimated on … analysis of transitions from employment to unemployment. The transition risks from formal employment, that is to saymobility …

-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …

neighborhood characteristics explain victimization better than individual characteristics. Second, I find that local unemployment … the precise localization of the data to adopt a spatial approach, comparing the effect of unemployment rate in the …

determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased … market capitalization as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation … intermediated credit worsens unemployment when the labour market is weakly regulated and coordinated, whereas it reduces …

fragilized by the process of globalization. The model generates results concerning the macroeconomic equilibrium employment level …

opposite strategies in the move towards a market economy: a massive decrease in employment or a small decrease in employment in … the non-competitive sector. We find that the transition is achieved faster with a big reduction in state employment than … with a small one. Surprisingly, the end of transition is also characterized by lower unemployment when there are massive …

This article aims to establish a link between the unemployment duration and the inter vivos transfers received by the … on the receiver's unemployment duration. Ultimately, a recursion arises and leads to a simulteanous determination of the … transfer and the duration. The model aims to apprehend the job search behaviour in a context where the unemployment …

the unemployment and employment of youth, with or without controlling for school attendance. In France policies aiming at … youth unemployment and the Wealth index show therefore a significant link in both directions, whereas nothing is significant … between youth employment and the Wealth index. Hence if we do not find evidence that reducing labor force participation of the …