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This second edition has been substantially updated and augmented. It incorporates examples drawn from many countries, and it presents empirical methods using contributions that have proved to be milestones in labor economics. The data and codes of these research publications, as well as numerous tables and figures describing the functioning of labor markets, are all available on a dedicated website (www.labor-economics.org), along with slides that can be used as course aids and a discussion forum.

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Pierre Cahuc is Professor of Economics at École Polytechnique, Director of the Macroeconomic Laboratory at CREST-ENSAE, Program Director at IZA, Research Fellow at CEPR and member of the Council of Economic Analysis of the Prime Minister. Stéphane Carcillo is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, a Senior Economist in the Directorate for Employment, Labor, and Social Affairs at the OECD, and a Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at Sciences Po (Paris) and at IZA Bonn. André Zylberberg is Emeritus Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and member of the Paris School of Economics (PSE).

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