En France, les indemnités journalières versées à un salarié en cas d’absence au travail pour maladie sont financées par un système à trois étages. Le premier étage est constitué des indemnités journalières versées par l’Assurance maladie. Le deuxième étage dépend des...

The purpose of this publication is to better understand disparities of proportions of sick leaves granted in French Departments. The Hygie database was used for this, built by merging a number of administrative files of employees in the private sector in France in 2005. We present a three-phase...

A partir des données 2010 de l’Enquête santé et protection sociale (ESPS), ce travail a pour objectif d’évaluer le niveau de discrimination salariale selon l’état de santé en France. Afi n de mesurer l’écart de salaire selon la santé des individus, l’analyse prend en compte la...

La réduction des inégalités face à la maladie est un des attendus majeurs du troisième Plan cancer 2014-2019, qui préconise de « diminuer l’impact du cancer sur la vie personnelle » afin d’éviter la « double peine » (maladie et exclusion du marché du travail). Dans ce contexte,...

This research uses a time-based approach of the causal relationship (Granger-like)between health and social capital for older people in Europe. We use panel data from waves 1 and 2 of SHARE (the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe)for the analysis. Additional wave 3 data on...

European countries with high senior employment rates have the highest levels of job satisfaction despite an older and more physically limited workforce. In this paper, we argue that this paradox can be explained by heterogeneous levels of job quality: better working conditions may enable older...

“Active Ageing” strategies aim to foster the participation of seniors in the society. Although economic literature has extensively studied the incentives for seniors to increase their labour supply, little is known about the motivations for older people to complement labour with other forms...

Pharmaceutical firms have been criticized for concentrating their efforts of R&D on the so called “me-too” or “follow-on” drugs. There have been many comments against and favourable to the dissemination of these incremental innovations but few papers have broached the subject from an...

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between migration and social integration. It explores the hypothesis that migrants essentially differ from non-migrants with regard to the length of residence in the country – which is a proxy of migrants’ social distance to...

Les soins de premiers recours jouent un rôle essentiel sur la santé de la population. En France, bien que la densité médicale soit l’une des plus élevées d’Europe, l’accessibilité aux soins est aujourd’hui un enjeu majeur des politiques de santé, du fait du rôle important...