Avec un chômage élevé, une participation faible de certains groupes comme les travailleurs peu qualifiés et les travailleurs âgés, et un nombre d'heures travaillées relativement bas, la France est loin d'utiliser pleinement son potentiel d'emploi. Une amélioration de la situation sur le...

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)....

This article aims to understand how public policies affect the behavior of agents in term of selectivity. In other words, we explain how the state of the labour market and, in particular qualification level of workers, affects technological choices of firms. Using a matching model in which...

Canada’s current system of fiscal federalism, which results in very large transfers of resources from have provinces to have-not provinces, promotes consumption over investment and hence does not maximize our productivity potential. The author recommends reform of Employment Insurance towards...