This article examines the effect of earnings from labour marketon conjugal stability. Using data from luxembourg?spanels collected during the period 1980-2000, we try to measure the impact of spouses? earnings and the impact of earnings dynamics on the risk of break down (of married and...

We present a model of female participation in the labor force, which deals with part time work and the minimum wage. The model is estimated on the French employment survey of 1997. We use it to compare various incentive schemes to work: the ?allocation compensatoire de revenu??, the negative...

This paper deals with the consequence of public employment on labor market performances in 17 OECD countries over the period 1960-2000. Empirical evidence suggests that the creation of one public job destroyed about 1,5 private job, sightly decreased participation to the labor market and...

This paper surveys the literature on equilibrium search models, where labor market equilibrium results from workers strategy (a reservation wage strategy) and firms strategy (which post a wage). One particular aspect of those models is to lead to a non degenerated wage offer distribution even...

Vis-a-vis the increasing of part-time wage labour in agricultural pool of employers, we study this structure to make more attractive the employee?s payment: conditions of an inciting payment of the wage workers. In the pool, the exogenous weight of each employer is then a significant parameter:...

This paper presents a structural model of labor-force participation for two adults families. We estimate jointly the participation of both partners, taking into account unobserved wages of nonworkers. Family utility depends on the household net resources in each possible state. The tax-benefit...

This paper presents several Dares?' empirical analysis on the impact of working time reduction on employment. Using recent econometrics methodology to analyse active labour market programs, the authors found a net effect on employment of 6 % to 7 % for companies under the Robien?'s or Aubry?'s...