nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace …. Despite long working hours, labour utilisation is only average due to structurally low employment rates, particularly at both … ends of the age spectrum, with some marked regional differences. The female employment rate is especially low, in part due …

Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in … enforced remains to be seen. For the time being, de facto employment protection is far less than de jure, with an enduring … wages, nor are they effectively enforced. During the recent slowdown, average wages adjusted rapidly and employment was soon …

In this paper we document the impact of education levels on labour market outcomes from 1994 to 2010 using national … household survey data. We show that higher levels of education are strongly rewarded in the labour market in terms of earnings … and that a tertiary qualification improves an individual’s prospects of employment. While the premium for matric and …

proxies for education quality. We find that the employment and earnings premiums to education level are robust to the …In this paper we include measures of school quality in regressions determining the labour market premiums to education … earnings, controlling for education level. Increasing the matric exemption score by 10 percentage points increases earnings, on …

declining. Manufacturing has not brought much new employment, and most of the recent rise in manufacturing employment has been …

and overall employment, and the implications of labour market arrangements for industrial structure and innovation … potential. We also look at the potential implications of regulatory reform for employment security and income inequality. We … data, though the analysis of employment uses also the time-series dimension. To this end, we rely on a large set of …

This paper analyses the age structure of employment rates across OECD countries with a focus on France. The statistical … dispersion of employment rates across age groups. The “within” component of the 15-29 age group accounts for over half of France …

While employment growth has accelerated, allowing unemployment to fall significantly since 2005, many low … workers in low-income households, subject to a minimum of hours worked, could lower barriers to higher employment which result …

methods. We also deal with reverse causality between education attainment and earnings by estimating the selection equations …’emploi d’une règle de sélection binomiale, et impliquent que les travailleurs ayant les plus hauts niveaux d’éducation sont les …