Luxembourg’s unemployment rate - which was extremely low in the 1970s and 1980s, and in the 1990s increased considerably but still remained low compared with other countries - has since 2004 been close to 5%. This report first compares Luxembourg’s experience with that of "reference...

Le programme de plateformes multifonctionnelles (PTF) vise à favoriser l’accès à l’énergie dans les villages ruraux sénégalais. En proposant notamment des services de mouture et de broyage, le programme s’adresse d’abord aux femmes. Il s’agit ici d’évaluer l’impact du...

In this paper, we consider a simple model that integrates the component of the social network as a research method of workers as well as a method of recruitment policy by firms. Indeed, taking into account the social sphere is fundamental to understand the labor market dynamic in developing...

The role of the minimum wage as « standard indicator » of public employment policies made a lot of controversy in the literature. The last few years, the issue renewed interest in the distributions offset angle, widening inequality gap and the emergence of insecurity in the workplace....

According to the conventional wisdom, we face a trade-off between our equity and efficiency objectives. The author challenges this proposition. He shows in a rigorous manner that employment subsidies can indeed lead to lower unemployment and higher productivity growth in a standard economic...

This paper investigates the work incentives aspect of the new tax credit called Prime au travail introduced by the Quebec government in January 2005. The problem of work incentives is discussed and a review of the literature pertaining to the American, English and French experiences in this...

Cet article propose une réflexion sur l’action publique pour accompagner, orienter et réguler les transformations et les différenciations régionales face à la mondialisation. Les défis pour l’État sont importants dans la mesure où il existe, à côté des grandes agglomérations, des...

Les performances nordiques – notamment danoises – en matière d’emploi mais aussi de taux de pauvreté ou d’inégalités suscitent depuis plusieurs années l’intérêt des chercheurs et des responsables politiques français. Elles sont souvent rapportées à la « flexicurité », au...