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Titre Qu'a-t-on appris sur le lien salaire/ emploi grâce aux débats sur les politiques de l'emploi ?
Auteur Bernard Gazier, Jérôme Gautié, Christine Erhel
Mir@bel Revue Cahiers d'économie politique
Numéro no 34, printemps 1999 Qu'a-t-on appris sur la relation salaire-emploi depuis Keynes?
Page 257-287
Résumé anglais A large number of labour market policy programmes rely on the reduction of labour costs. Therefore the link between wage/labour costs on the one hand, and employment on the other hand, can be analyzed through the results stemming from active labour market policy evaluation. On the ground of a survey of existing studies, this contribution presents successively micro- and macroeconomic impact studies. It focuses on the methodological debates in this field, mat are necessary to the understanding and interpretation of the results. The main conclusion would be that reducing labour costs through various types of subsidies might be efficient in terms of job creations, but in a limited proportion, the extent of which is dependent on the content of the programme (pure job subsidy, or comprehensive programme including training ; targeting). At the macro level, one can state, on the basis of econometric studies, that active labour market policies considered as a whole have a wage
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