. Thus, such reforms are not sufficient by themselves to reduce the unemployment rate and to stimulate production and …

could lead to more unemployment. This long run effect vanishes under the Phillips specification. On the whole, the final … effect upon unemployment depends on agents' bargaining preferences during wage negotiations: the further from labor cost they … negotiate (thus the closer to net income), the higher the risk that demographic change ultimately leads to more unemployment. …

We know from experience that weak economic growth increases the unemployment rate. In 1962 Okun proposed to measure … potential output in terms of unemployment gap. From this relation a direct link between increase in unemployment and output …

-time employment are mostly driven by worker transitions in and out of unemployment and nonparticipation. Thus, part-time work … findings, we discuss certain characteristics of labor market institutions in France and their evolution over the past two …

rate allows us to illustrate the importance of political measures used over the last thirty years to deal with unemployment … apprenticeship, increasing number of students passing the baccalauréat, population structure, unemployment rate&). In both situations …, we measure only weak, if any, response of participation rates to short-term unemployment rate changes. …