The recovery in employment growth observed in the last two years in France allowed a substantial reduction of the unemployment rate. Since 1993, labor market policies have aimed at lowering the labor costs for unskilled workers. In the same time, the volume of unskilled employment, measured...

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...

This paper provides an empirical analysis at the firm level of the link between international trade and employment, for French manufacturing firms across the period 1986-1992, for which homogenous data are available. Firms constantly involved in international trade throughout the period...