The transition to retirement involves various disruptions, notably use of time and temporal perceptions. First, a qualitative study explores links between temporal perceptions and subjective experiences of retirement. Then, a quantitative study tests the influence of individual time perception...

Subjective welfare is an increasingly important topic for empirical literature. Several factors (psychological, socio-demographic and economic) are proposed to explain subjective welfare. Until now, research on subjective welfare has primarily focused on developed countries. Very little research...

Through a close examination of Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc’s "La société de défiance : comment le modèle social français s’autodétruit" [The society of mistrust : how the French social model is destroying itself], this article inquires into the role that can be attributed to...

This paper seeks to analyze economic transfers relating to the financing of long-term care for the elderly, as they arise from court decisions on the legal duty to financially support ascendants. The first section reviews the computation of the support obligation based on a sample of...

This article aims at discussing the various dimensions of budget allocation decisions made by final consumers. We review the main research and offer a conceptual typology of allocation choices at different levels (time, efforts, product categories, brands…). Then, we make suggestions to carry...

The present phenomenon of the changing age-structure of the population will come to a head in the next few years with the considerable mass of those over sixty. Indeed, the behaviour of this growing sector of the population is at the centre of many issues, especially regarding inheritance...

Organizational life is replete with claims for emancipation. Existing approaches understand these claims either through theories of macro-emancipation (which focus on larger social structural challenges) or micro-emancipation (which focus on everyday challenges). However, these theories...

This paper aims to contribute to understand the mechanisms underlying the complex exclusion process of indigenous people in Peru, by analysing the role played by aspirations in the investment in education of indigenous children. To address these issues, the paper relies on a very rich data set,...