This paper addresses the role played by Public Sector (PS) employment across different OECD labour markets in … of employment in the PS vs. the private sector using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), in the light of … gender differences in labour market transitions of workers among inactivity, unemployment, working in the PS and working in …

French employment protection legislation before the crisis started. -- temporary contracts ; unemployment ; Great Recession …This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …