Waiting for the recovery in the US
By Christophe Blot As with the economic performance of all the industrialized countries, economic activity fell off sharply in the second quarter of 2020 across […]
Uemployment
The COVID-19 crisis and the US labour market: Rising inequality and precariousness in perspective
By Christophe Blot In the United States as in France, the COVID-19 crisis has led to numerous measures restricting economic activities intended to limit the […]
What can we learn from the Finnish experiment with a universal income?
By Guillaume Allègre Between 2017 and 2018, Finland conducted an experiment with universal income that gave rise to significant media coverage. 2,000 unemployed people receiving […]
European unemployment insurance
By Léo Aparisi de Lannoy and Xavier Ragot The return of growth cannot eradicate the memory of how the crisis was mismanaged at the European […]
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 […]
What is the initial assessment of Germany’s minimum wage?
By Odile Chagny (IRES) and Sabine Le Bayon A year and a half after introducing a statutory minimum wage, the German Commission in charge of adjusting […]
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”, […]