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 …

-hospital employment and local unemployment is stronger the more left-wing the local municipality. This latter result holds especially when … employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in not-for-profit (NFP) or private hospitals, even controlling …, but without political influence on their hiring. Public-hospital employment is positively correlated with the local …

In this paper, we argue that credit market imperfections impact not only the level of unemployment, but also its … steady-state unemployment, but also slow down the transitional dynamics. We then provide an empirical illustration based on a … the persistence of unemployment. …

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 … groups of unemployed individuals. The first results, obtained from the analysis of the unemployment dynamics do not enable us …

In French border regions, the unemployment durations of communes increase with distance from the border to a threshold … unemployment, differences in unemployment durations between border communes and those located around thirty kilometres from the … unemployment using a linear model estimated by ordinary least squares. The advantage of living near the border is mainly due to …

-hospital employment is positively correlated with the local unemployment rate, whereas no relationship is found in non-Public hospitals … election results. The relationship between public hospital employment and local unemployment is stronger the more left-wing the … employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in Not-For-Profit or private hospitals, even controlling for …

labour market institutions (Social Dialogue, Employment Protection Legislation, Unemployment Insurance and Employment …

employment, sales, gross operating surplus and labour productivity growth. Preliminary results suggest that employment growth is … is not followed by much employment growth or sales growth. …