This paper examines the influence of political ideology on economic growth in the French democracy since 1871. It does so by addressing three main issues : the property and the reliability of a political ideology index in the long-run, the robustness of the relationship between ideology and...

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 examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. We employ the panel Granger causality testing approach of Kónya (2006) that is based on SUR systems and Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. This...

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ a panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...

In this paper, we aim at assessing Markov-switching and threshold models in their ability to identify turning points of economic cycles. By using vintage data that are updated on a monthly basis, we compare their ability to detect ex-post the occurrence of turning points of the classical...

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...

In this paper, we argue that credit market imperfections impact not only the level of unemployment, but also its persistence. For this purpose, we first develop a theoretical model based on the equilibrium matching framework of Mortensen and Pissarides (1999) and Pissarides (2000) where we...