A Grenoble comme dans la plupart des grandes villes françaises, le nombre de places en crèches est limité et seule une partie des demandes peuvent être satisfaites. L’enquête menée en 2007 auprès de l’ensemble des familles grenobloises inscrivant un enfant en maternelle permet de...

We use household income tax data to estimate a structural model of female labor supply and utilization of paid child care outside the home. We find that child care costs have little impact on the participation decision of mothers of young children. However, they influence hours of work, as well...

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 microsimulation model Destinie developed at INSEE is a privileged tool to assess the effect of pension schemes reforms since it projects the evolution of a representative sample of the French population up to 2040. Up to now, the model was exclusively devoted to the projection of pensions...

The French pension reforms of 1993 and 2003 aimed at moderating futures increases of the pension burden for the population of working age and for public finances. Such a moderation cannot be obtained without any hardening of retirement conditions. At the individual level, the incidence of such...

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...

Research aimed to analyze the role of the social actors, in France and in Quebec, in the governance of the conciliation. At the end of research, we propose the track of a strategy renewed around the concept of flexi-security, in a new and widened meaning. Thus, while the flexi-security of...

L’objectif de cet article est de mettre en évidence la relation entre la durée d’arrêt de travail, les salaires et l’Assurance maladie. Nous présentons une réécriture du modèle développé par Allen (1981), en tenant compte des spécificités du modèle français. Les propriétés...

L’allègement des travaux domestiques et l’accroissement de la part de revenu du ménage sur lequel les femmes ont un pouvoir de décision sont deux objectifs de développement complémentaires quoique motivés par des raisons différentes. Pour atteindre ces objectifs, il convient de...

A specific attention is devoted to the 55+ age group when building global labour force projections regularly updated by Insee. This requires taking into account individual heterogeneity, because the impact of pension reforms on behavior is potentially very different across individuals. For...