The labour market: is the unemployment rate a good indicator?
By Bruno Ducoudré and Pierre Madec Considering the euro zone on the one hand and the United States and the United Kingdom on the other, changes […]
Uemployment
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 […]
Still no halt to the rise in unemployment
OFCE Analysis and Forecasting Department The unemployment data for the month of May once again show a rise in the number of job seekers registering […]
A fall in the unemployment rate according to the ILO: the false good news
By Bruno Ducoudré and Eric Heyer Two days following the announcement by France’s unemployment agency Pôle Emploi of an increase in Class A job seeker registrations […]
Unemployment figures: the chill returns in April
By Analysis and Forecasting Department (OFCE-DAP) While the slowing increase in the number of job seekers registered with France’s Pôle Emploi unemployment agency in the […]
The “Ricardian effect”: to be taken with caution!
By David Ben Dahan and Eric Heyer Is the deterioration in the public finances influencing households’ consumption behaviour? A recent INSEE study tries to answer […]
Should we be celebrating the fall in unemployment at end 2013?
By Bruno Ducoudré and Eric Heyer Every quarter, the INSEE publishes the unemployment rate as defined by the International Labour Office (ILO): for the fourth […]
What minimum wage for Germany?
By Odile Chagny and Sabine Le Bayon The campaign for the parliamentary elections taking place on 22 September in Germany has engendered a broad debate […]
A fiscal policy to promote structural reform – lessons from the German case
By Eric Heyer “France should copy Germany’s reforms to thrive”, Gerhard Schröder entitled an opinion piece in the Financial Times on 5 June 2013. As […]
France: the rise in cyclical unemployment continues
By Bruno Ducoudré The Great Recession, which began in 2008, has resulted in a continuous and inexorable rise in unemployment in France, by 3.1 percentage […]