Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- John Edwards -- PART I: STATE, SOCIETY AND EMPLOYMENT -- 2. Flexibility: In Search of a New Social Settlement -- Jean-Paul Revauger -- 3. Fleixibility and Policies in Employment Reflections -- from Several European Countries -- Jean-Louis Meyer...

In this paper we challenge the traditional labour market view, which argues that unemployment is determined in the long-term by its equilibrium rate, which in turn is affected by permanent shocks of some exogenous variables. In our empirical approach we decompose the dynamics of employment and...

Does the educational track (technical or professional, as opposed to general) provide individuals with networks that are useful in the labor market? And how do these networks help? In this paper, we consider the effect of the educational track on the means by which individuals find employment,...