The empirical literature shows, first, that the relationship between women?s incomes and the risk of marital disruption differs from one study to the other, and second, that the European studies on this topic are very rare. Therefore, we test this relationship for ten European countries using...

This article examines the effect of earnings from labour marketon conjugal stability. Using data from luxembourg?spanels collected during the period 1980-2000, we try to measure the impact of spouses? earnings and the impact of earnings dynamics on the risk of break down (of married and...

[eng] France and Luxembourg have recently introduced relatively similar tax reforms. In France, the reform has been accompanied by the prime pour l’emploi, an earned income tax credit, and in Luxembourg by a one-off increase in family allowances. The two reforms have been evaluated ex ante...

La mise en place d’une règle de calcul pour déterminer les montants de pensions alimentaires des enfants lors d’un divorce (ou d’une séparation de parents non mariés) constitue pour les économistes une forme d’intervention publique susceptible d’avoir des effets interprétables en...

We analyse the impact of cash transfers, targeted on children and/or poor families, on the monetary poverty of children. The impact of benefits is successively analysed in terms of efficacy, efficiency and equity. Efficacy is estimated through the reduction of the intensity of poverty. The...

Since April 2010, an official guideline has been published by the French Ministry of Justice. The implementation of this guideline raises questions about the expected impacts of this public decision-making tool. First, before the beginning of the divorce procedure, a guideline contributes to...

The paper deals with the analysis of labour force participation choices among parents who are eligible to the French parental allowance (APE). The literature survey indicates that most analyses focus on the very important impact of the 1994 reform : extending the allowance to second-rank...