We examine differences in the intensity of employer priors against men and women with Arabic names in Sweden by testing how much more work experience is needed to eliminate the disadvantage of having an Arabic name on job applications. Employers are first sent CVs of equal merits in a...

This paper discusses new methods of combined macro-micro analysis of labor demand and supply to investigate the gender impacts of public policy. In particular it examines how studies have used input-output analysis together with more or less sophisticated methods of allocating people to jobs to...

The last few decades have shown a remarkable reappraisal of the smallbusiness sector. Since the 1970s, the gloomy orthodoxy notwithstanding, alarge number of people have set up shop and managed to survive in anincreasingly global economy. Their role in the economy has been publiclyacknowledged...

The article deals with the implementation of equal opportunities and positive action in the field of work in France. After presenting a few characteristic trends of the evolution of the status of women on the labor market, the author presents the legal and policy framework of professional...