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Family policies : what does the standard endogenous fertility model tell us ?

Baudin, Thomas - HAL - 2008

exhibit a too high fertility rate. Furthemore, when health is introduced as another source of externalities, the model shows … that health expenditures have not always to be subsidized. Indeed, the taxation of births plays the role of an indirect … subsidy on health expenditures because it decreases the cost of health relatively to the cost of the quantity of children …

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An inter-temporal optimization of flexible nuclear plants operation in market based electricity systems : The case of competition with reservoir

Lykidi, Maria; Glachant, Jean-Michel; Gourdel, Pascal - HAL - 2011

In electricity markets where competition has been established for a long time, a nuclear operator familiar with the operation of such markets could be interested in the optimal long-term management of a flexible nuclear set (like the French) in a competitive market. To obtain a long vision of...

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How to manage a large and flexible nuclear set in a deregulated electricity market from the point of view of social welfare?

Gourdel, Pascal; Lykidi, Maria - HAL - 2014

In the case of a large nuclear set (like the French set), nuclear production needs to be flexible to adjust to the predicted evolutions of the energy demmand. Consequently, the dominant position of nuclear in the national energy mix makes it responsible for the overall equilibrium of the...

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Protection sociale et insertion professionnelle : une comparaison France - États-Unis

Reysz, Julien - HAL - 2001

La crise survenue au cours des années 1970 a eu comme conséquence de mettre à mal les différents systèmes de protection sociale. En effet, élaboré pendant une période de forte croissance économique et fondé sur la norme du plein emploi, le modèle d'emploi fordiste français a été...

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Prevention against equality?

Fleurbaey, Marc; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2012

Common sense supports prevention policies aimed at improving survival prospects among the population. It is also widely acknowledged that an early death is a serious disadvantage, and that attention should be paid to the compensation of short-lived individuals. This paper re-examines the...

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Compensating the dead? Yes we can!

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2010

An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has remained so far largely unexplored, probably because it appears infeasible. Indeed, short-lived agents can hardly be identified ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue...

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Actuarial risk assessment of expected fatalities attributable to carbon capture and storage in 2050

Ha-Duong, Minh; Loisel, Rodica - HAL - 2011

This study estimates the human cost of failures in the CCS industry in 2050, using the actuarial approach. The range of expected fatalities is assessed integrating all steps of the CCS chain: additional coal production, coal transportation, carbon capture, transport, injection and storage, based...

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How Powerful is Demography? The Serendipity Theorem Revisited

Croix, David De La; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2009

Introduced by Samuelson (1975), the Serendipity Theorem states that the competitive economy will converge towards the optimum steady-state provided the optimum population growth rate is imposed. This paper aims at exploring whether the Serendipity Theorem still holds in an economy with risky...

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Asymptotic age structures and intergenerational trade

Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2009

While demographers Lotka (1939) and Lopez (1961) proposed conditions on (exogenous) fertility and mortality laws under … issues of age structure stabilization and convergence, by considering a population whose fertility and mortality are … structures will end up with the same long-run age structure when fertility and mortality laws are converging, which requires …

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Fair Retirement Under Risky Lifetime

Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; … - HAL - 2013

egalitarian grounds --although the conclusion is reversed when mortality strikes only after retirement. …

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