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...

Luxembourg’s unemployment rate - which was extremely low in the 1970s and 1980s, and in the 1990s increased considerably but still remained low compared with other countries - has since 2004 been close to 5%. This report first compares Luxembourg’s experience with that of "reference...

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...

The first part of the text is devoted to an assessment of the influence of the introduction of performance contracts in the Public Employment Service (PES) in France. It shows that this management technique (“contractualism”) had a very marginal impact in the period considered (1990-2003)....