This article analyses age differences in several labour market outcomes in France for participants of intensive case management programmes, delivered in 2009 and 2010 by the public employment service (PES) or private providers. These programmes are different from the intensive case management...

According to the conventional wisdom, we face a trade-off between our equity and efficiency objectives. The author challenges this proposition. He shows in a rigorous manner that employment subsidies can indeed lead to lower unemployment and higher productivity growth in a standard economic...

The national statistical institutes face permanently the need to reform and update the statistical criteria and instruments for labor market analysis, as well as to adapt international recommendations for measurement. These processes pose important challenges regarding the comparability of...

The national statistical institutes face permanently the need to reform and update the statistical criteria and instruments for labor market analysis, as well as to adapt international recommendations for measurement. These processes pose important challenges regarding the comparability of...

In this article we analyse the relationships between unemployment and cooperative. We suppose that cooperatives there are not a solution to the unemployment but however they improve labour conditions. To check this we carried out a study with recently stars-up cooperatives. Our data confirms...

Ces dernières années, malgré une croissance continue de l'emploi, le taux de chômage luxembourgeois a augmenté de façon tendancielle, passant de 2 % en 2000 à presque 5 % actuellement. Ce phénomène a priori contradictoire a pour toile de fond le fait que sur les quelques 300 000 emplois...

This paper studies the efectivity of search methods in the colombian labor market. The empirical analysis is uses the 2003 survey of life quality. More frequently used methods are the informal ones; i.e. informal economic activities are reflected in the informality of search methods. Formal...