The strength of the German labour market response to the financial crisis of 2008-09 demonstrated the benefits of past labour market reforms, which raised work incentives, improved job matching and increased working hour flexibility. Going forward, the government should build on this success and...

This paper analyses the age structure of employment rates across OECD countries with a focus on France. The statistical contribution of each age group to total unemployment-rate differentials is also computed. An estimate of the sensitivity of age-specific unemployment rates to the economic...

Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace. Despite long working hours, labour...

In this paper we examine whether past labour market reforms aiming at reducing the rate of unemployment have raised its long-run volatility. Using non-linear panel data models applied to 24 OECD countries between 1985 and 2007, as well as Monte-Carlo techniques, we do not find any evidence of...

This paper identifies the factors influencing unemployment duration in Switzerland. In comparison with the existing literature, we focus more specifically on the differences due to nationalities. Our sample is composed of 74'161 individuals drawn from the administrative database PLASTA during...

The aim of this paper is to understand why the unemployment rate in Geneva is higher than in the rest of Switzerland. In order to explain the differences of cantonal unemployment rates, we use an approach based on the analysis of inflow and outflow rates into and from unemployment and the...

Récemment, les données du dernier recensement fait en Polynésie française ont été rendues publiques. Cet article se propose de les utiliser pour étudier les caractéristiques du chômage polynésien. Nous montrons également que le taux de chômage officiel conduit à sous-évaluer de...

Using a computable general equilibrium, this paper quantifies the GDP and employment effects of an illustrative greenhouse gas emissions reduction policy. The paper first analyses the direct negative economic effects of the emissions restrictions on GDP and examines labour sectoral reallocations...

The financial crisis has resulted in a substantial increase in unemployment in the OECD. This paper shows that this increase has reversed the reduction in structural unemployment which has been estimated to have occurred in most OECD countries since the late 1990s. Structural unemployment is...

Ce mémoire met en évidence les relations entre les rigidités du marché du travail et le chômage en s'appuyant sur le cas de la France, dans le but d'expliquer du moins en partie le chômage. Avec le premier choc pétrolier en 1973, apparaît un chômage de masse dans la communauté...