This paper provides a theory of migrants’ decisions to remit and save under uncertainty in connection with future location decisions. We show that the impact of remittances on the risk faced by the migrant is more complex than usually acknowledged. On the one hand, their effect on aggregate...

Recent empirical evidence links migrant remittances and return migration, and stresses the impact of uncertainty on migrant decisions. Theoretical analyses of the motives for remittances generally neglect these features, and do not include alternative strategies such as savings, which...

While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).In married and cohabiting couples,...

The main aims of the present paper are to examine whether gender role attitudes mitigate or facilitate social cohesiveness of Luxembourg residents and to uncover whether this effect is moderated by gender. Social cohesiveness is measured by composite indicators: first two represent general...

Ce texte porte sur la mesure et la comparaison des inégalités de santé liées au niveau d’éducation au Luxembourg et dans 23 autres pays européens. Les données proviennent des enquêtes/EU-SILC réalisées sous l’égide d’EUROSTAT en 2007 dans l’Union Européenne, l’Islande et la...

This paper aims at proposing measures of polarization for the distribution of a variable when information on the latter is only ordinal. The measures proposed are borrowed from the recent literature on the measurement of segregation. An empirical illustration is given, based on the European...

Des études récentes consacrées à la mortalité dans les pays développés montrent que les inégalités sociales de mortalité persistent et mettent en évidence l’existence de mortalité différentielle selon le statut socioéconomique et la nature des relations sociales. Au Luxembourg,...

Ce texte analyse les relations entre le capital social et la santé au niveau individuel au Luxembourg. Cette analyse porte principalement sur le concept de capital social comme déterminant social de la santé et se fonde sur une hypothèse implicite basée sur l’existence d’incidence...

This paper analizes the links between non-monetary deprivation and inequalities in poverty levels in Europe. Non-monetary deprivation is defined as an enforced lack of a combination of items depicting material living conditions, such as housing conditions, possession of durable goods and...

We show in this paper that the growth rate of the Sen index is multi-decomposable, that is, decomposable simultaneously by groups and income sources. The multi-decomposition of the poverty growth yields respectively: the growth rate of the poverty incidence (poverty rate) decomposed by groups,...