The main objective of this article is to analyse the institutional framework of labour market function. Theoretical literature has created a set of institutional aspects such as employment protection legislation, structure of wage bargaining, taxation of labour, active labour market policies,...

This article aims to understand how public policies affect the behavior of agents in term of selectivity. In other words, we explain how the state of the labour market and, in particular qualification level of workers, affects technological choices of firms. Using a matching model in which...

The first part of the text is devoted to an assessment of the influence of the introduction of performance contracts in the Public Employment Service (PES) in France. It shows that this management technique (“contractualism”) had a very marginal impact in the period considered (1990-2003)....

Avec un chômage élevé, une participation faible de certains groupes comme les travailleurs peu qualifiés et les travailleurs âgés, et un nombre d'heures travaillées relativement bas, la France est loin d'utiliser pleinement son potentiel d'emploi. Une amélioration de la situation sur le...