In 2009, France will replace its income maintenance scheme, "revenu minimum d'insertion", by a new one, revenu de solidarité active, which will improve the beneficiaries'incentives to work. While some have claimed that the reform should lower the current age limit to get the benefit, i.e., 25...

Créé par une loi du 1er décembre 2008, le revenu de solidarité active (RSA remplace depuis le 1er juin 2009 deux minima sociaux, le revenu minimum d'insertion (RMI) et l'allocation de parent isolé (API), sur les neuf que comptait le système français. Il est conçu pour aider les...

This paper aims at evaluating the effect of the 1991 French tax reduction on the use of in-home services. The motivation of this study is to determine whether the redistribution it generates in favour of the wealthiest is counterbalanced by an incentive to use more services for less well-off...

Buddhism, one of the three largest religions in the world, is rich and deep in spirituality and philosophical content. In Asian and Western countries, the economic and managerial aspects of Buddhism have become a subject of renewed interest and many studies. The book What Buddhism can bring to...

Allocations familiales et autres transferts cibles sont generalement verses aux meres, sur la base de l`observation qu`augmenter la part des ressources controlees par les meres conduit a ameliorer le bien-etre des enfants. Nous recensons un ensemble de resultats empiriques qui etablisent le...

La microfinance a fait l’objet d’un colloque organisé par la Banque de France en juillet 2011. Les participants ont souligné son utilité comme outil d’inclusion financière, de développement économique et de lutte contre la pauvreté en s’appuyant sur les expériences des pays du...

One frequent objective of market research, and particularly in cross cultural contexts, consists in comparing those attributes that determine the choice of different sub groups of consumers. Practitioners may resort to different types of importance scales, or use ranking methods, or even pair...

Aggregate art price patterns mask a lot of underlying variation — both in the time series and in the cross-section. We argue that, to increase our understanding of the market for aesthetics, it is helpful to take a micro perspective on the formation of art prices, and acknowledge that each...