The labour market is a social institution with features that significantly vary across countries. Econometric investigations of the past decades lead to interesting knowledge about the effect on employment of various labour-market structural reforms. This knowledge is, however, imprecise. Hence,...

[eng] Growth and employment the scope of an European initiative Jacques Drèze, Edmond Malinvaud et Alii Executive Summary 1. Since almost twenty years now, European unemployment is a major social problem and the sign of significant underutilisation of resources at a time of substantial unfilled...