examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a …This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is …

In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We … higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much higher, putting Spain half-way between France and the US. This …

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

randomized experiment over a national sample in France, we compare the efficiency of the public employment service (PES) vs …

covering the development on an aggregate level. Estimations to shed light on the relation between unemployment and labour force … years. However, the impact of this development on unemployment is rather limited. …

mandatory reduction of weekly working hours in France. Just after François Mitterrand?s election in May 1981, the government … creation. These results should help us understand the possible effects of the upcoming mandatory reduction of hours in France … envisaged in other European countries, which hope that hours reductions will be an efficient policy for reducing unemployment. …

equate the expected urban wage (given a downward rigid real wage in the urban sector) to the real wage. Unemployment is … endogenously determined. Interpreting unemployment as damage, urban pollution (damage denoted in units of labour) can also support … the same equilibrium with the value of damage equal to the value of resources otherwise lost through unemployment. However …

We analyze the impact of product market competition on unemployment and wages, and how this depends on labour market … competition. We find that increased product market competition reduces unemployment, and that it does so more in countries with …

targeting affect unemployment, economic growth and the output gap. The results show that inflation targeting causes no harm to … employment in developing and emerging countries. On the contrary, it might reduce average unemployment and narrow the output gap …