Over the last decade, many researchers have focused on the study of different urban hierarchies and their evolution over time. These studies may or may not confirm Zipf’s law and emphasize the characteristics of urban growth. The question is then whether urban growth depends upon city-size or...

Ces dernières années, malgré une croissance continue de l'emploi, le taux de chômage luxembourgeois a augmenté de façon tendancielle, passant de 2 % en 2000 à presque 5 % actuellement. Ce phénomène a priori contradictoire a pour toile de fond le fait que sur les quelques 300 000 emplois...

The present study analyses (i) the role of labour migration in efforts to overcome labour shortages; (ii) the variety of instruments used to identify and monitory labour shortages at EU and national level (such as employer surveys, forecasts and qualitative studies), and (iii) the extent to...

Since 1973, INSEE provided each year, some statistics about French sectoral and regional (departmental one, since 2002) wage-earning and non wage-earning job. This statistics works is heavy and spend a long time to check all collected and calculated data because the level of disaggregation is...

Since 1973, INSEE provided each year, some statistics about French sectoral and regional (departmental one, since 2002) wage-earning and non wage-earning job. This statistics works is heavy and spend a long time to check all collected and calculated data because the level of disaggregation is...

This paper presents a retropolation of regional sectoral employment's data series since 1967 to 2006. They have been computed from various INSEE's data series distributed along various nomenclatures. We present a technique based on 1° the "classical" (econometric + RAS) method and 2° a matrix...

This paper presents the building of long run data series about the French employment by employment area (zone d'emploi) from 1989 to 2010. We have completed the data series expressed by INSEE from 1998 to 2007. In the paper we describe our methodology and we present the results. This work is...

This paper considers the formation of the urban formal ector wages in the presence of rural migration in a collective bargaining framework. We show in particular that the restoration of full employment in the presence of an informal sector can be implemented through a policy of subsidy depends...