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 …

strategy. This paper evaluates the e®ect of this policy on employment and also on output and welfare. We construct an … equilibrium search model incorporating wage posting and specific human capital investment, where unemployment and the distribution … of both wages and productivity are endogenous. We estimate this model using French data. Numerical simulations show that …

This paper studies the effect of changes in the employment rate on labour productivity per hour, taking an empirical … changes in the employment rate structure from those of changes in the qualification structure. With the results obtained, we … practice with respect to employment rate structure and qualification level. It appears that the two effects are more or less of …

the evolution of two different forms of productivity (the productivity of labour and total factor productivity … theoretical underpinnings for most debates on the origins of the particular economic growth and productivity gains that have taken …

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that the dynamism of employment is always contradictory to the … methodology of employment diagnosis might help them in designing security/flexibility configurations tailored according to their …

differing contribution of employment relations and work organisation characteristics in shaping the balance between effort and …