This paper attempts to determine whether residential location affects unemployment duration. Our analysis is based on a spatial job search framework that shows the importance of dissociating the role of travel time from physical distance in unemployment duration. The contribution of our study...

[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...

Si les conséquences des fermetures d’établissements industriels sur les licenciés sont relativement bien connues, celles qui sont relatives à l’extinction de systèmes locaux de formation professionnelle engendrée par ces fermetures le sont moins. Nous revenons ici sur un licenciement...