[eng] Over the last twenty years, youth unemployment has become a major issue of the French labour market situation. It explains the increasing public intervention in the labour market targeted to the youths. This article tries to shed some light on two main aspects of the youth labour market...

[eng] Intra-cis trade and payments . . Within the former Soviet Union, interdependencies of the production sectors of the member Republics were particularly strong. The breakdown of the Union has aggravated the already marked tendency for inter-Republican trade to contract, with very serious...

[eng] The dramatic political and institutional changes now occurring in the Soviet Union are likely to have profound consequences on income distribution amongst households, as well as amongst Republics. Even before the onset of the current reform wave had been initiated by M. Gorbatchev, the...