@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp871, author={L'Horty, Yannick and Rault, Christophe}, title={The Impact of Growth, Labour Cost and Working Time on Employment: Lessons from the French Experience}, year={2003}, month={Sep}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={871}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp871}, abstract={To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained by added value, working time and real labour cost. Estimations using quarterly French macro-economic data are carried out in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors. We get a relationship in which employment rises with growth and decreases when labour cost or working time rises in industrial sectors as well as in non-industrial ones. This model then permits to measure retrospectively the contributions of each of the variables to employment inflections since the mid-eighties.}, keywords={working time;employment;labour demand;hourly productivity;Per capita productivity;cointegration;VAR-ECM model}, }