telephone survey targeted at those leaving the unemployment registers; this enriched data source has a balanced and much higher …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

This paper deals with the consequence of public employment on labor market performances in 17 OECD countries over the … period 1960-2000. It is argued that public employment had an important crowding out e¤ect on the private sector and increased … the unemployment rate over this period. More precisely, empirical evidence suggests that the creation of one public job …

This paper analyses unemployment and employment dynamics in the urban Mexican labour market. We use amethod to … transitions between sectors; and the transitions from the two types of employment to unemployment. The model is estimated on … analysis of transitions from employment to unemployment. The transition risks from formal employment, that is to saymobility …

developed countries for its impact on employment, wages and the welfare state, is not an issue at stake in Thailand for the … leads us to define what we mean exactly by “knowledge” (part 1). We will then turn to the consequences on employment and …

determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased … market capitalization as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation … intermediated credit worsens unemployment when the labour market is weakly regulated and coordinated, whereas it reduces …

market flexibilization or makes it harmful to employment. In Austria, Canada, Finland and Portugal, it reduces its …We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 … market variables (labour market regulation, union density, coordination in wage bargaining) to unemployment are a ffected by …

fiscal effect on the labor market that make the unemployment rate and job flows overshoot. As an empirical illustration, we … estimate a SVAR model that focuses on the consequences of public job creations on unemployment, wages and job flows dynamics …. We confirm our intuition : public employment has a significant ambiguous effect on private wages. …