  In France, for administrative reasons, unemployed workers may actually be
involved in occasional work while remaining identified as unemployed (and
receiving the corresponding benefit). This is due to the fact that the
unemployed are deemed to be seeking full-time jobs and non-fixed term contracts
of employment. This situation may be analysed as evidence of a special type of
secondary segment of the labour market in a context of massive unemployment.
The authors consider the effects of this situation both on the duration of
unemployment and its recurrence may be usefully investigated.
