Why some countries have fared better than other after the Great Recession
by Aizhan Shorman and Thomas Pastore The European labor market is characterized by a great economical and institutional divergence. On the one hand, there is […]
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The participation rate and working hours: Differentiated impacts on the unemployment rate
By Bruno Ducoudré and Pierre Madec In the course of the crisis, most European countries reduced actual working hours to a greater or lesser extent […]
Beyond the unemployment rate. An international comparison since the crisis
By Bruno Ducoudré and Pierre Madec According to figures from the French statistics institute (INSEE) published on 12 May 2017, non-agricultural commercial employment in France increased […]
An end to growth?
Analysis and Forecasting Department (international team) This text relies on the 2016-2018 forecast for the global economy and the euro zone, the full version of which […]
Italy and the labour market: improvement, with caveats
By Céline Antonin Since early 2015, the renewal of growth in Italy, the implementation of Act II of Matteo Renzi’s Jobs Act, and the reduction […]
Unemployment: beyond the (good) figures from France’s job centre
Analysis and Forecasting Department (France team) The 60,000 person decline in March for the number of people registered in Category A at France’s Pôle emploi […]
Matteo Renzi’s Jobs Act: A very guarded optimism
By Céline Antonin At a time when the subject of labour market reform has aroused passionate debate in France, Italy is drawing some initial lessons […]
Unemployment: an ambiguous fall, but an unambiguous rise in long-term jobless
Analysis and Forecasting Department (France team) The unemployment figures for the month of January 2016 published by France’s Pôle Emploi job centre show a fall […]
2015: An eighth year of rising unemployment in France
Department of Analysis and Forecasting (France Team) Since June 2015, the number of job seekers at the end of the month (the number of “DEFM”, […]
The labour market on the road to recovery
By Bruno Ducoudré A look at the figures just published by France’s Pôle Emploi job centre for the month of September 2015 shows that the […]