CDD vs. CDI: the effects of a contractual dualism.

Summary Faced with endemic unemployment for over thirty years, many countries have chosen to reform their labor markets. These reforms have led to the use of atypical forms of employment, mainly fixed-term contracts and temporary work. . In France, the result is a dual labor market where highly protected stable jobs coexist with precarious jobs of ever shorter duration, often offering employees no other prospect than a return to unemployment. Initially thought of as a remedy for the employment crisis, this flexibilization of part of the market has gradually become a destabilizing force with deleterious social and economic consequences. . François Fontaine and Franck Malherbet analyze how this contractual dualism has developed and how it affects the functioning of the French labor market. They propose various structural reforms to remedy it.