We develop a balanced growth model with labor supply and search and matching frictions in the labor market to study the impact of economic policy variables on the two margins which constitute the (total) labor input: the extensive one (the rate of employment) and the intensive one (the hours...

This paper focuses on transition from unemployment to employment. A comparison between jobs found by formerly unemployed people and jobs occupied by the working population proves that the first are more often part-time and short-term, flexible, jobs. A risk modelling of flexibility shows that...

Our developed countries are today in view of a major challenge : to preserve sufficient fertility rates at all costs to ensure the economic and social development in the long term, therefore a level of increasing employment, while at the same time possible problems of shortage of labour are...

This paper offers an analysis of the career security according to three criteria defined by the CERC (2005) : the job stability (length of job tenure), the job security (short duration of unemployment after an external mobility) and the income security (maintaining or increasing incomes). We try...

This contribution aims at presenting a critical and syntetic overview of the researches done, since 1995, under the aegis of the "Transitional Labour Markets" current. In its first part, the survey focuses on the positive theoretical bases of this current. They come from diverse theories of the...

This research focuses on the gap between the last employment and the new job at the exit of unemployment in the "Sortants de l'ANPE" survey of ANPE/DARES (5 548 persons). Many people are downgrading because their skills level is higher than the level of the job's qualification (matching between...

This paper focuses on jobs found by formerly unemployed people ; it is based on the 2007 and 2009 « leaving unemployment » surveys. A review of recent studies about job quality shows the importance of multi-dimensional approaches. Yet few research works are concerned with job quality of...

This paper investigates the immigration impact on native outcomes using micro-level data for France. I find that immigration does not affect the wages of competing natives, but induces adverse employment effects. This finding is consistent with a wage structure that is much less flexible in...

This article presents a conceptual approach related to the European flexicurity debate, the Transitional Labour Market (TLM) theory and its main assumptions. The aim is to bring this analytic framework into the discussion and to clarify some central aspects by defining the key concepts of...

The article analyses how the changes in firm's human resources practices shaped the dynamics of labour market segmentation in France. The survey FQP 2003 contains a rich information to describe jobs. It offers standard information as the sector or the size of the company and also more original...