"This book provides an analytical and critical reading of the state of knowledge on legislation relating to employment protection and its impacts on unemployment, jobs creation, productivity and more generally efficiency of the labor market."

In this article, we stress the effect of a Negative Income Tax (NIT) scheme on the firms' behaviour as regards their technological choices. Within the framework of a matching model with differentiation of the agents, we show that a NIT reduces inequalities and rises employment making agents less...

This article aims to understand how public policies affect the behavior of agents in term of selectivity. In other words, we explain how the state of the labour market and, in particular qualification level of workers, affects technological choices of firms. Using a matching model in which...

Nous étudions, dans cet article, le rôle des allocations chômage dans la détermination de la nature des emplois offerts. Nous montrons qu'un système d'indemnisation du chômage généreux, en provoquant une accentuation de la sélectivité des agents, affecte les caractéristiques des...

Many economists (Atkinson, 1995, Ferry 1995) have presented the mechanism of l'Allocation universelle as the new way forward by the modern social protection. In this article, we propose first to recall the context in which takes up the debate on l'Allocation universelle. Using a matching model...

The object of this article concerns the effect of the exogenous jobs’ complexity on the companies’ behavior regarding the qualification choices. Using a specific comparison model in which workers are vertically differentiated, we are able to demonstrate that in case of a skill-biased...

The rising disparities, to the detriment of less qualified workers, is certainly one of the most worrisome trends to which the developed countries have to face. Nevertheless, this deteriorating didn't have the same effects in all the countries. Indeed, in the Anglo-Saxon countries, the incomes...

The development of working poor class led the concerned countries to look for policies to reduce this poverty in the work without interfering with the flexibility of the labor market as in the case of the minimum wage legislation. In this perspective, several measures were implemented. Following...

In this article, we stress the effect of a Negative Income Tax (NIT) scheme on the firms' behaviour as regards their technological choices. Within the framework of a matching model with differentiation of the agents, we show that a NIT reduces inequalities and rises employment making agents less...