Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33278 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1621
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
France posted remarkable gains in employment in the second half of the 1990s, suggesting that, beyond cyclical factors, structural unemployment may have changed in the period. We provide a novel methodology to separate structural from cyclical labor market changes and apply it to French household level data from 1990 to 2000. We show that the equilibrium relationship between real wages and unemployment has improved significantly in France in the second half of the 1990s. Further calculations suggest that long-term unemployment will decline substantially in France with respect to its average level in the 1990s if this improved trade-off is not undone.
Subjects: 
employment
wages
bargaining
structural change
labor market
JEL: 
D2
E2
J23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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