Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...

Outre leur crédibilité, la coordination et la hiérarchisation des réformes sont déterminantes pour réduire les coûts à court terme et tirer avantage des effets positifs à long terme.

The assessment of the impact of labour law in general, of employment law in particular, on the labour market performance is very frequently grounded on employment protection indicators. The most used is the OECD “employment protection legislation” synthetic index. The article focuses of...

Significant labour market mismatches and insufficient mobility penalise employment and productivity. Mismatches have above all a skills dimension, with an excess of low-skilled workers and a possible lack of skilled workers in certain domains. Reducing the high tax wedge on low salaries and...

Le marché du travail se trouve désormais au cœur de la politique monétaire des États-Unis. Les auteurs analysent les débats actuels au sein de la Fed et les défis auxquels celle-ci est confrontée.

With almost 50 per cent of the working age population not working, improving labour market performance represents an essential and daunting challenge for Poland. While some of today’s joblessness is cyclical in nature, most of it appears to be structural. This paper argues that to increase...

The centralised wage agreements have helped to contain inflation. There is evidence that wage increases were more moderate when a central agreement was concluded than in periods when no central agreement was reached. Nevertheless, there is also evidence that centralised wage setting has had some...

Les réformes structurelles sur le marché du travail ne peuvent réussir que si leurs effets attendus ne sont pas neutralisés par des variations inappropriées des salaires. Cela invite à s’interroger sur le niveau de négociation salariale le mieux à même d’assurer leur réussite tout...

This article aims to identify factors that influence the integration of graduates of higher education on the labor market in Benin. To this end, we adopted a methodology based on an analysis of empirical data collected from graduates from universities and higher education centers over the past...

Partant des observations empiriques et de l’analyse économique de Rueff (1925, 1931) concernant le chômage anglais des années 1920, cet article montre que l’auteur distinguait : [a] un chômage « permanent » attribuable à un excès des salaires réels par rapport au rendement du...