Durée du travail et performances comparées des marchés du travail de l'OCDE

Abstract

Hours of work and labour market performance in OECD countries Olivier Passet This study compares three different methods for measuring weekly hours of work among 21 OECD countries. More often, the results are closed and allow, by cross-checking, a synthetic ranking. The comparisons of the rankings carried out from different methods with some labour market indicators (unemployment rate on the one hand, employment rate on the other hand) don't yield a simple relation between hours of work and labour market performances. However extreme positions (short or long working duration) appear more favourable concerning unemployment than intermediary ones. In addition, short duration or long average duration mixed to widespread individual time agreements generally fit with highest employment rates than homogeneous long duration.