Le cas français: Approfondir les connaissances empiriques pour mieux cibler la formation

The issue is about OECD's strategy about continuing training. OECD is recommending a continue accumulation of human capital reinforcing the incentives towards the firms and the individuals to invest in human capital. Data agree the OECD analysis about a non equal access to continuing training, but it is not true concerning policies efficacy. This article considers as outstanding the training systems assessment, as a fighting device against long- term unemployment. The author thinks that we don't have enough pertinent information in order to estimate the effect of trainings regarding professional trajectories.