Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States? This "jobs gap" has typically been blamed on the rigidity of European labor markets. But in Services and Employment, an international group of leading labor economists suggests quite a different explanation....

The paper shows that the growing employment gap between Europe and the USA over recent decades reflected the failure of services-employment rates in Europe to converge to American levels whilst European employment rates in goods production were falling rapidly towards those of the USA. The...

A simple model of informal learning on-the-job, which combines learning by oneself and learning from others, is proposed in this paper. It yields a closed-form solution that revises Mincer-Jovanovic's (1981) treatment of tenure in the human capital earnings function by relating earnings to the...

A model of informal training which combines learning from own experience and learning from others is proposed in this paper. It yields a closed-form solution that revises Mincer–Jovanovic's [Mincer, J., Jovanovic, B., 1981. Labor mobility and wages. In: Rosen, S. (Ed.), Studies in Labor...

[eng] The inequality in the distribution of household primary insomes in France from 1962 to 1979. . The article presents the evolution in the inequality of household primary incomes in France. The data corne from the french fiscal income survey for years 1962, 1965, 1970, 1975 and 1979....

[eng] We analyze the effects of measures taken in favour of youth on the duration oftheir stay in the firm and on their professionnal trajectories at the end of their employment spell. We estimate models of job employment and of job search, in order to test the effective­ness of Youth training...

A model of informal training which combines learning from own experience and learning from others is proposed in this paper. It yields a closed-form solution that revises Mincer–Jovanovic's [Mincer, J., Jovanovic, B., 1981. Labor mobility and wages. In: Rosen, S. (Ed.), Studies in Labor...