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I use publicly available microdata files of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, unemployment, and inactivity. My approach involves estimating and applying a scaling factor that has been proposed in earlier research as a way of capturing the relative intensity of job search from inactivity compared with unemployment. This factor provides enough structure to prevent arbitrary splitting of unemployment outflows between employment and inactivity. In turn, the estimated job search factor can be used in a few simple step-by-step instructions applied to the LFS public files to assess near real-time labour market conditions in Canada. An analysis of the recent dynamics of worker flows illustrating the practicality of my approach highlights that transition rates (a) from employment to unemployment have fallen over time, (b) from unemployment to employment were unusually high during the pandemic, and (c) have regional differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé: Les auteurs font appel à l'apprentissage profond et au traitement du langage naturel pour construire des indicateurs de compétences et de distance professionnelle comparables entre pays, qu'ils utilisent pour produire des faits descriptifs sur les transitions professionnelles et la distribution des salaires au Brésil. À partir de données sur l'ensemble des contrats de travail formels conclus entre 2003 et 2018, ils constatent que les travailleurs mobilisant surtout des compétences cognitives non routinières sont mieux lotis en termes d'emploi, de salaire et de transition professionnelle. Ils observent des signes de progrès technologique biaisé et de polarisation de l'emploi après la crise économique brésilienne de 2014. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Exposure to online learning platforms such as LinkedIn Learning, Coursera, and edX has been increasing, yet sustaining user engagement remains a significant barrier. We tested whether email reminders would increase engagement with LinkedIn Learning for unemployed youth not in school or training. All participants received without charge a license only (Group A), a license plus personalized onboarding (Group B), or a license plus personalized onboarding embedded in an intensive training program (Group C). In these three groups, participants were randomly assigned to either the treatment arm, who received reminder emails, or the control arm. A two-stage randomization design was implemented to account for potential peer spillover effects in the third group. We found no evidence of an effect of the email reminders on LinkedIn Learning use on aggregate. However, in the third group, which included ongoing training, high activation, and significant student interaction, we found some evidence of higher overall usage enhanced by spillover effects. These findings suggest that engagement with online learning tools may be enhanced with hands-on training, combined with online and in-person engagement and coaching on the use of online learning interfaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sub-Saharan Africa is facing situations of political instability against a backdrop of mass unemployment. Economic literature remains divided on the relationship between the two phenomena. Some authors believe that political instability is the source of unemployment, while others think the opposite. To this end, the aim of this article is to study the relationship between political instability and unemployment in sub-Saharan Africa. To this end, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model in panel data and data from 2002-2022 are used. The results show a unidirectional relationship from unemployment to political instability, supporting that, on the one hand, unemployment is a lubricant of political instability, and, on the other hand, unemployment is a marginal consequence of political instability. These results show the need for public policies that are likely to promote economic growth and employment and to strengthen democracy and governance in order to break the vicious circle of unemployment and political instability that hamper development in countries south of the Sahara. These include appropriate investments in human capital, in social services and in the promotion of industrialization, in order to facilitate access to employment, particularly for young people, who make up a significant proportion of the demographic structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En retraçant les principaux bouleversements de l’histoire économique de la ville sainte chiite de Najaf, en Irak, entre 1923 et 1958, cet article analyse leurs effets immédiats sur les développements sociaux et urbains de la ville et sur le déplacement de ses frontières visibles et invisibles. Parmi les principales crises économiques qui affectent Najaf figurent l’interruption du pèlerinage, la grande dépression de 1929, l’occupation britannique de l’Irak en 1941 ou encore des aléas climatiques. L’article se concentre notamment sur le développement de la surpopulation, du chômage, de la faim et de la criminalité à Najaf ainsi que les moyens employés par les autorités pour répondre à ces enjeux sociaux. Il s’agit notamment de montrer que l’expansion urbaine et la modernisation des infrastructures contribuent à transformer les pratiques sociales traditionnelles de cette cité sainte et modifient profondément ses frontières internes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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L'accompagnement des transitions professionnelles des personnes au chômage requiert de plus en plus de prendre en compte leurs préoccupations existentielles relatives au sens de leur carrière. La littérature consacrée au sens de la vie et du travail a mis en évidence le caractère multidimensionnel de la notion de sens et la grande variété de ses déterminants. Cette pluralité de dimensions ne facilite pas leur utilisation dans le conseil aux personnes. Le dispositif « Accompagnement au sens de la vie et sens du travail » de Bernaud et al. (2020) répond à ce problème ; il structure un questionnement sur le sens chez les personnes en perte de repères professionnels et personnels. En analysant selon la méthode des cas multiples une application de ce dispositif, notre article se propose d'étudier comment un accompagnement au sens aide des personnes au chômage à redonner une direction à leur carrière. L'étude de cinq cas décomposés en unités d'analyses chronologiques montre comment différentes dimensions du sens permettent aux personnes de clarifier, enrichir et transformer leur problématique initiale au cours de l'accompagnement et comment elles progressent à des rythmes différents vers des décisions personnelles et professionnelles importantes. The guidance design for unemployed people in changing career must increasingly take into account their existential concerns about career meaning. The literature about life and work meaning has highlighted the multifactorial complexity of meaning definition and determinants of meaning. This fact does not facilitate their use in counselling design. Bernaud et al. (2020) "Guidance for life and work meaning" device takes into account this problem; it offers many thinking prospects that organize meaning questioning in order to help people who loosed professional and personal markers. By analyzing an application of this device with the multiple cases method, our article examines how a meaning guidance helps unemployed people in giving a new direction of their career. The study of five cases with chronologic analysis unities shows how various meaning dimensions help people to clarify, to enrich and to transform their initial problematic during accompaniment and how they progress with different rhythms to major personal and vocational decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dans bon nombre de villes des pays en développement, la femme joue un rôle socio-économique indéniable, étant donné sa traditionnelle fonction de ménagère, ses multiples initiatives socio-économiques et son apport dans le développement de la société. De nos jours, la femme de Mbuji-Mayi, grâce à son accès à l’instruction et aux diverses informations qu’elle a suivi, est devenue très active dans différents domaines. Suite au manque d’emploi dans le secteur formel, nombreuses sont ces femmes qui ont créé leurs propres unités de production dans le secteur informel ; elles gèrent des petites structures économiques dans lesquelles elles vendent des divers produits et services pour juguler le chômage. La culture entrepreneuriale est en forte croissance qui incite ces femmes soucieux de leur milieux, de leur survie et de leur développement, à prioriser l'entrepreneuriat comme moyen de lutte contre la pauvreté et à se donner progressivement les moyens d'actualiser ce potentiel. Et cette culture serait en effet constituée de qualités et d'attitudes exprimant la volonté d'entreprendre et de s'engager pleinement dans ce que l'on veut faire et mener à terme. Cependant, plusieurs défis (financement, accompagnement, formation, etc.) restent à relever pour aider la femme entrepreneure de Mbujimayi ; d’émerger et de contribuer efficacement au développement socio-économique local.

Résumé: Les auteurs s'interrogent sur la validité de la loi d'Okun en Amérique latine. En s'appuyant sur plusieurs modèles économétriques, ils montrent que, dans la région, les fluctuations de l'activité économique influent moins sur les taux de chômage que dans les économies plus avancées, et que la relation chômage/production varie selon le pays. Cependant, même quand la relation d'Okun est faible ou inexistante, les variations cycliques nuisent à la qualité de l'emploi. Ces observations plaident pour l'adoption de mesures de lutte contre le chômage non plus générales mais ciblées sur des branches spécifiques, ainsi que pour une action en faveur de la qualité de l'emploi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cet article examine les déterminants du chômage en RDC. Le caractère réduit de l’échantillon, à savoir un pays, et cela s’explique par la disponibilité des données portant sur la période 2001-2020. Le modèle inspiré de la littérature empirique est estimé par la méthode des moindres carrés ordinaires (OLS). Nos résultats économétriques révèlent que les variables éducation, l’inflation, l’investissement direct à l’étranger, la population explique significativement le niveau de chômage des jeunes au seuil d’un 1% et de 5 %. L’éducation et les investissements directs à l’étranger tendent à augmenter le taux de chômage tandis que la croissance de la population et l’inflation tendent à réduire le taux de chômage.

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The Great Confinement affected the labor market, particularly the dynamics of unemployment. Based on IEFP data on registered unemployment, this article analyzes the impact of the pandemic crisis in unemployment situations in Portugal. The categorical and territorial distribution of the unemployed is highlighted, as well as the temporal dimension of the problem. The quantitative/extensive analysis carried out, as well as the cluster analysis, indicates that the incidence of unemployment is not identical for all social groups or for the entire territory, affecting some more than others, with emphasis on some spatial concentrations, particularly in Algarve; and the variations are directly related to temporalities resulting from periods marked by confinement or deconfinement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Résumé: Les auteurs montrent que les marchés du travail ont davantage souffert des effets de la pandémie de COVID‐19 en 2020 que de ceux de la crise financière en 2009. Les mesures de confinement ont joué un rôle déterminant. La crise a donc touché plus durement les économies à revenu intermédiaire, certains secteurs comme l'hébergement et la restauration, et certains groupes comme les jeunes femmes. Les auteurs établissent également que, cette fois, la hausse des flux concerne surtout la mobilité vers l'inactivité (plus que vers le chômage). Ils affirment que les pouvoirs publics doivent maintenir leurs politiques de soutien pour que la reprise profite à tous. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L’emploi n’a jamais été autant d’actualité. La crise économique et financière qui a touché le monde depuis 2007 / 2008 a conduit à une hausse massive du chômage remettant en cause le fonctionnement des marchés du travail. Les acteurs socio-économiques et politiques sont confrontés de plein fouet aux bouleversements des marchés, d’un côté et des enjeux du maintien de l’emploi et de la lutte contre le chômage, la précarité, la pauvreté et l’exclusion, de l’autre côté. Depuis un temps, le Maroc tente de rétablir un certain équilibre, en cherchant à favoriser l’utilisation des ressources, le renforcement des capacités pour créer des emplois et une dynamique intégrée de développement local. Et, tout le monde s’accorde à dire qu’aujourd’hui au Maroc, un nouveau modèle de développement s’impose. Un modèle assurant une croissance intelligente1, durable et inclusive accompagné d’un niveau d’emploi acceptable, de productivité et de cohésion sociale. Le travail décent trouve ici toute sa justification, un concept qui est en train d’acquérir ses lettres de noblesse en prouvant sa capacité à combler les carences des politiques sociales du marché.

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La sous-représentation en emploi des personnes handicapées est documentée. En revanche, les restrictions pour accéder à un travail rémunéré sont peu connues dans leurs déclinaisons par types de déficience, et difficiles à isoler des sorties d'emploi liées aux déficiences d'origine professionnelle. À l'aide de l'Enquête Emploi 2011 et de son module ad hoc , cet article dégage des facteurs et processus contribuant à l'inactivité, au chômage, ou à leur coprésence, pour des personnes de 15–64 ans vivant en ménages en France métropolitaine et ayant une déficience survenue avant la fin de leur formation initiale. Selon les types et degrés de déficience, des mécanismes handicapants plurifactoriels surviennent à des stades divers, dessinant trois configurations d'absence d'emploi : inactivité pour les personnes avec une déficience cognitive (forte ou modérée) ou une déficience psychique modérée, chômage pour les personnes avec une déficience visuelle forte ou une déficience motrice modérée, et coexistence des deux pour les personnes avec une déficience motrice forte ou une déficience psychique forte. Par ailleurs, les reconnaissances administratives de handicap ont des effets nuancés (selon les droits associés) et les rendements des diplômes sont hétérogènes selon les sous-groupes. The under-representation of persons with disabilities in employment is documented. However, the restrictions for persons with disabilities to accessing paid work are not well known in their variations by type of impairment. Moreover, they are likely to be confused with job exits because of work-related impairments. Using the 2011 Employment Survey and its ad hoc module, this article identifies factors and processes contributing to inactivity, unemployment, or their co-presence, for people aged 15–64 living in households in metropolitan France and having an impairment that occurred before the end of their initial training. Depending on the type and degree of impairment, multifactorial disabling mechanisms occur at varying stages, drawing three "out-of-employment patterns": inactivity for people with cognitive impairment or mild mental health impairment, unemployment for people with severe visual impairment or moderate mobility impairment, and coexistence of both for people with severe mobility impairment or severe mental health impairment. Moreover, the administrative recognitions of disabilities have nuanced effects (depending on which rights are associated) and the benefits of diplomas are heterogeneous according to the subgroups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In individual terms, unemployment situations cause both a destructuring of daily life practices and a loss of resources and socioeconomic conditions that were previously taken for granted. This is a vulnerable situation that results simultaneously in forms of disaffiliation and social disqualification, with consequences in the rise of poverty and social inequality. Unemployed people live the present in a state of constant uncertainty that makes it hard to construct coherent prospects for the future. Basing itself on a sociological problematisation of social time, this article seeks to operationalise a set of categories and temporal profiles that are derived from unemployment situations and to identify different variants of a lived temporality which the authors call forced downtime. The investigation is the product of an analysis of 46 in-depth interviews of relatively older unemployed persons who live in Portugal and possess low or intermediate levels of schooling. Content analysis shows that there are different ways in which interviewees experience distinct temporal dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L’auto-entrepreneuriat tend à devenir le modèle professionnel dominant chez les jeunes. Les faiblesses du système éducatif et celles des dispositifs d’insertion professionnelle de l’État malien ne permettent pas aux diplômés d’accéder à un emploi pérenne. La fonction publique et les collectivités territoriales se montrent inaptes à absorber la population en demande d’emploi. Face à ces problèmes, les jeunes s’engagent dans un parcours professionnel précaire. À travers des entretiens individuels conduits à Bamako, San et Bandiagara, j’ai pu retracer le parcours de plusieurs jeunes Maliens. De petits métiers en activités ponctuelles en passant par l’auto-entrepreneuriat, certains jeunes parviennent à consolider leur parcours et devenir des modèles de réussite. De plus en plus, l’auto-entrepreneuriat devient un choix alternatif à la fonction publique.

In this article, the author argues for an extension of David Bordwell's historical poetics in order to better understand cinema's politico-discursive dimension. Against too narrow a conception of filmmaking, which focuses exclusively on stylistic and narrative questions, cinema's social semantics should also be taken into consideration. Taking two films as examples, Kirsten demonstrates how a political poetics might can proceed without losing sight of formal devices. He demonstrates how découpage and montage work together in the first part of Kuhle Wampe (Slatan Dudow, 1932) to suggest a certain reading of the young unemployed worker's suicide. Furthermore, he argues how the ordering of events - the early placement in the film of the suicide scene - is politically meaningful. Kirsten's second example, the Spanish film Los lunes al sol (Fernando Léon de Aranoa, 2002), also deals with the theme of unemployment, however the two films differ in both their historical context and in the chosen means of cinematic discourse. Less explicitly political than Kuhle Wampe, Arranoa's film nevertheless implies a fairly clear assessment of the protagonists' situation and its causes. Kirsten shows that the film, on the one hand, achieves an « sociography of unemployment in fictional-filmic form » with the help of a multiple protagonist ensemble, where each character stands for a different attitude towards their situation. On the other hand, however, it makes the most prominent and most sympathetic character the inner diegetic commentator of the events, thus suggesting a political evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This Study aims to highlight the face of the unemployment crisis which is one of the most important State challenges, that led to the work to find policies to alleviate or address this phenomenon. The State adopted various employment policies that match the needs of young people according to their age and requirements, The study showed the extent of the ability of the supporting organisms to affect unemployment rates positively even at a low frequency. The study found that the economic reforms carried out by Algeria during the period between (2001-2017), which there was a significant decline in unemployment rates and increase employment opportunities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article draws on our qualitative study of trans unemployment to introduce considerations of the relationship between trans unemployment and the demands for workers across economic sectors to perform affective labour as integral to industrial service relations. Affective dimensions of labour are often unspoken and unconscious, rendering it challenging for anti-discrimination laws to accommodate. We demonstrate the ways that recent cases grounded on unconscious bias open spaces for further consideration of the ways that trans employment discrimination rooted in demands for affective labour can be dealt with by anti-discrimination law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers of people in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, people who are "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or people who are not in the labour force while waiting to be recalled. Two encouraging signs are evident. New postings of vacancies have recovered from 50 percent to about 80 percent of their pre-crisis level. Also, data suggest that the increase in employment in May 2020 is due to the re-entry into employment of some of those waiting to be recalled. These patterns suggest that the labour market might rebound quickly. Warning signs are that the shares of unemployed persons without job attachment and of those on recall engaged in job search are beginning to increase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In postmodern dynamics, according to a Lacanian reading, the subjects’ desire for recognition is a fundamental element in the relationship with the other. They are encouraged to have narcissistic jouissance (enjoyment) and impelled to sell themselves continuously to earn their place in this society of the spectacle. Virtual social networks are one of the postmodern stages where this happens. This study aimed to answer the question of how such dynamics would be, on Facebook and LinkedIn, for unemployed individuals. Given that this condition is socially devalued, representing a narcissistic wound for many subjects, the objective was to apprehend which manifest and unconscious discourses they produce in these social media. The approach adopted was qualitative and the method used was netnography. The main conclusion is that some unemployed subjects use Facebook and LinkedIn to try to plug the narcissistic wound, in their image for the other, that unemployment represents. They do this by building certain images of themselves, selecting what they publish, and eliminating, in general, their suffering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this study, we review the initial impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the Canadian labour market. We focus on changes in employment and aggregate hours worked between February 2020 and April 2020 while accounting for normal monthly changes in these indicators. We find that COVID-19 induced a 32 percent decline in aggregate weekly work hours among workers aged 20–64 years, alongside a 15 percent decline in employment. We characterize the distribution of work lost, finding that nearly half of job losses are attributed to workers in the bottom earnings quartile. Those most affected by COVID-19 are in public-facing jobs in industries most affected by shutdowns (accommodation and food services), younger workers, paid hourly, and non-union. The results provide context for policy development, with both supply and demand sides of the labour market to consider. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Informal mining settlements in Rustenburg, South Africa, grew exponentially due to the removal of apartheid-era spatial controls in the late 1980s and the boom in platinum mining in the early 2000s. These informal settlements lack official recognition, and this generates collective uncertainty and engenders different forms of waiting. Residents wait for employment, services, and ultimately official recognition of their settlement and its integration into the Rustenburg Local Municipality. As residents wait, they also fashion various strategies to alleviate their situation. Drawing on ethnographic data collected from the Ikemeleng informal settlement on the outskirts of Rustenburg town, this article combines an analysis of experiences of waiting with the conditions and structures that generate waiting. It argues that waiting in informal settlements is not characterized by passive acquiesce but is an engaged activity that is informed by residents' reflexive responses to the different structures and regimes of waiting. The article argues that informal settlements should be viewed as zones of waiting, not only because they are spaces that generate waiting, but most importantly because residents engage in active waiting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé: Les inquiétudes suscitées par le chômage technologique ne datent pas d'aujourd'hui. Dans les années 1960, les débats sur l'automatisation reflétaient aussi bien l'optimisme que les préoccupations engendr..ées par le potentiel de destruction d'emplois du progrès technique. L'étude des documents d'archives, notamment des informations réunies par le Bureau de l'automatisation du BIT, montre que nombre des propositions avancées aujourd'hui étaient déjà évoquées à l'époque au sein de l'OIT, même si elles n'ont jamais été traduites en termes réglementaires. Revenir sur le débat de cette époque peut offrir des éclairages utiles pour relever les défis actuels et nous aider à construire l'avenir du travail que nous appelons de nos vœux. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]