[fre] Depuis une quinzaine d'années, l'État a créé des aides à l'industrialisation au bénéfice des régions défavorisées, et principalement en faveur de l'Ouest de la France. L'étude présentée ici cherche à apprécier l'efficacité réelle de ces aides pour les quatre départements...

A single model applied to data from a large number of surveys covering thirty-five years provides highly empirical but comparable measurements of the economic returns to education and to experience, in the most general sense of that term, and of their evolution in France. While this model does...

[fre] Construire une distribution des établissements selon le nombre de leurs salariés n'est pas chose aisée. Les sources existantes souffrent en effet de plusieurs défauts, comme leurs délais de mise à jour ou la spécificité des concepts sur lesquels elles reposent. Malgré ces...

[eng] The major features of unemployment over twenty years - At the beginning of the 1960s, unemployment affected less than 2 % of the active population. Today, the threshold of 10 % has been passed. Certain categories of workers are more affected than others. For this reason, there is a...

[eng] The measurement of recent evolution of unemployment - The number of unemployed as defined by ILO and estimated by the labor force survey and the number of persons seeking a paid employment and registered with the « Agence nationale pour l'emploi » (ANPE) apparently did not evolve at the...

[eng] Reading is less Attractive Than it Was Ten Years Ago - There has been a serious drop in reading over the last twenty years. The drop was particularly acute for those individuals who are still within the school system, that is, students at all levels. In 1967 practically all students read...

[fre] Combien de personnes sont touchées par le chômage ? Environ deux millions. Ce nombre a-t-il fortement augmenté ces dernières années ? Il a doublé depuis 1976. Les deux instruments de mesure du chômage les plus utilisés s'accordent sur ces réponses. Mais si l'on veut dépasser ces...

[eng] The growth of unemployment over twenty years: macroeconomic interpretations - The available indicators for any attempt to characterize the different forms of unemployment are approximate and interpretations are neither sure nor simple. They suggest, however, that the rise in unemployment...