At the beginning of the nineties labor productivity in France slowed down strongly. Yearly labor productivity (per worker) growth in the non-farm business sector fell from 2% during the 1982-1992 period to 0.7% between 1993 and 2000. This productivity slowdown seems to have stimulated...

French Abstract: Nous étudions la dynamique du travail à temps partiel et sa contribution aux ajustements cycliques du marché du travail français. Nous montrons que le temps partiel interagit peu avec l’emploi à plein temps, et que ses évolutions de court terme sont principalement...

The main goal of this paper is to present the evolution of the labour market and the labour policies implemented in Eastern Countries, by studying specifically Bulgaria. The description of the Bulgarian labour under the communist system shows that the first-fruits of a labour market were already...

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...

Les performances nordiques – notamment danoises – en matière d’emploi mais aussi de taux de pauvreté ou d’inégalités suscitent depuis plusieurs années l’intérêt des chercheurs et des responsables politiques français. Elles sont souvent rapportées à la « flexicurité », au...

This paper is the French contribution for an international comparative survey directed by the Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (Tokyo). It assesses available empirical data, analyses and debates. It obeys to the standard architecture of the international questionnaire :...