policy attention to help parents to combine work and family through improvements to daycare and early education …’impôt sur le revenu d’activités professionnelles. Les pouvoirs publics s’efforcent également d’aider davantage les parents à …

This paper analyses the age structure of employment rates across OECD countries with a focus on France. The statistical … contribution of each age group to total unemployment-rate differentials is also computed. An estimate of the sensitivity of age …-specific unemployment rates to the economic cycle is provided for OECD countries. France is one of the OECD countries having the highest …

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 …

spanning the period 1996 to 2004. The effects of changes in the minimum wage on unemployment, formal-sector employment and the … increase in employment: a rise in informal-sector employment more than compensates for job losses in the formal sector. This …

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 …

While employment growth has accelerated, allowing unemployment to fall significantly since 2005, many low …-skilled workers are still unemployed and the duration of unemployment spells is still long. The introduction of an in-work benefit for … workers in low-income households, subject to a minimum of hours worked, could lower barriers to higher employment which result …

High levels of unemployment and rising social charges have lead to considerable pressure on labour markets to adjust … respects in order to raise the economy’s capacity to generate employment. The present tax and transfer system still implies … significant disincentives for labour supply of older people and spouses, which should be eliminated. Unemployment related benefits …

, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration of immigrants (as well as integration of second …

This paper explores the impact of policies and institutions on employment and unemployment of OECD countries in the … and institutions affect employment not only via their impact on aggregate unemployment but also through their effects on … past decades. Reduced-form unemployment equations, consistent with standard wage setting/price-setting models, are …