In many developed countries, the share of permanent hired labour in the total agricultural labour force has been increasing in recent years. Using data from the 1988 and 2000 agricultural censuses in France, we analyse the factors that influence households' decisions regarding the use of hired...

The larger the labour market, the more likely firms are to find on this market an individual meeting precisely the requirements of a vacancy and the more likely a job seeker is to find a job offer matching his skills. As a consequence, everything being held equal (in particular, firm size and...

C25, J63.

By disaggregating the Midi-Pyrenees region into 18 different local labour markets, we have highlighted wage differentials which can be completely explained neither by structural effects related to the sectoral distribution of the firms nor by the individual characteristics of the local manpower....

Le Revenu minimum d'insertion (RMI) a été instauré à la fin des années quatre-vingt pour faire face à la montée de la pauvreté due au fort accroissement du chômage. Il vise d'une part à assurer un revenu minimum aux personnes durablement privées d'emploi et d'autre part à aider à...

Les marchés du travail ruraux présentent certaines spécificités. En raison de leur faible taille, les offres et les demandes d'emploi y sont moins nombreuses et donc moins diversifiées, d'où des difficultés d'appariement des unes aux autres plus fortes que sur les marchés du travail...

[eng] Rurality : variety of approaches . This paper try to shed a light on the way rurality can be conceptualised. It is argued that there is not one concept of rurality, but many ways to build it which can be derived from as many ways to question space heterogeneity. By way of illustration,...

[eng] Rural labour markets : . between paternalism influence and job matching difficulties . In this contribution, rural space is regarded as characterised mainly by low density of population and jobs and by small size of the firms. The impact of these characteristics on the labour market is...