We consider a segmented labor market characterized by a Shapiro-Stiglitz efficiency wage setting in both sectors. However, the primary sector and the secondary sector differ in the firing cost which induces a wage diffential. We suppose also a heterogeneous labor force characterized by the...

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 long-term equilibrium unemployment rate has returned to the center of the economic debate in France. It derives from two macroeconomic equations. Wages are the result of wage bargaining on the labor market (wage-setting equation) and firms set the corresponding level of employment...

Dans cet article, nous étudions les effets des critères d’attribution des allocations chômage dans un modèle de chômage d’équilibre où les efforts de recherche et les salaires sont endogènes. La prise en compte d’une durée d’emploi minimale exigée pour bénéficier des...

This paper provides a detailed description of the professional transitions in early career. We use the French survey Formation et Qualification Professionnelle, that gives detailed information on qualification and education, but also a calendar of professional events between 1998 and 2003. We...

In 2000, workers employed by their employer for less than a year contributed to 19% of the total number of hours worked in the French private sector. Besides temporary work agencies, this unstable work is used more often by the industries in the services sector and less often by those in the...

The purpose of the article is to analyse the consequences of the constraint of shareholder value on the wage level and equilibrium unemployment rate. We will relate the new program of maximization of the firm, as well as the one of the trade union. We obtain an increase of the unemployment rate...

This paper offers an analysis of the career security according to three criteria defined by the CERC (2005) : the job stability (length of job tenure), the job security (short duration of unemployment after an external mobility) and the income security (maintaining or increasing incomes). We try...

The article analyses how the changes in firm's human resources practices shaped the dynamics of labour market segmentation in France. The survey FQP 2003 contains a rich information to describe jobs. It offers standard information as the sector or the size of the company and also more original...

La création du Compte personnel de formation (CPF) marque une étape importante pour le système français de formation continue en instituant un dispositif individualisé de financement de formations. Mis en œuvre en janvier 2015, il est actuellement le seul exemple existant au niveau...