Until the introduction of the RSA (Revenu de solidarité active -i.e. Active Solidarity Income) on 1st June 2009 in metropolitan France and 1st January 2011 in overseas territories, poor single-parent families were entitled either to the RMI (Revenu minimum d'insertion – i.e. Minimum Income...

This paper shows that, beyond the institutional stability of Social Security, changes in the private sector as well as the emergence of a new financial paradigm have transformed both the U.S. pension system and the political debate about its future. Although no major reform of Social Security...

Most of the retirement decision models consider retirement as an individual trade-off between consumption and leisure and do not take the spouse situation into account. However, several elements could account for an interdependance between the spouses retirement decisions : complementarity for...

The biological sciences are, sooner or later, confronted with Politics as a place of purposes definition to aim for the common life quality of human beings. They represent reciprocally a balustrade against politic roaming which would subjugate the living being to its ends. The ultimate canvas of...

French abstract: La société québécoise vieillit et la pression exercée sur les dépenses publiques, particulièrement sur celles du ministère de la Santé, nécessite un financement important. Dans les prochaines décennies, le vieillissement de la population entrainera une croissance...

Social contributive insurance systems which are based on the repartition principle between generations are strongly influenced by the demographic evolutions.

Human development and social cohesion are not only important component, but essential premises and powerful drivers of sustainable development also.

Demographic projections are generally considered as more robust than all other kinds of socio-economic forecasts. But doubts are sometimes cast on their relevance, especially when strong revisions of previous projections are proposed, as done by INSEE in 2006. The purpose of this paper is to...