L’objectif de ce texte est de questionner les fondements normatifs des politiques d’activation, dans leur version Making Work Pay, afin de souligner les «préférences révélées » des décideurs politiques. Pour cela, nous montrons comment les théories de la justice de Rawls, Dworkin et...

This paper is aimed at calling into question the normative foundations of active labour market policies, especially the strategy to ?make work pay? by analysing the « revealed preferences » through public decision making process. We use J. Rawls, R. Dworkin and A. Sen?s theory of justice as...

This paper deals with the impact of family policies on the mothers’ employment in France and Sweden. In order to compare family policies' effects on the mothers’ labour market, we first examine the institutional structures of the two countries, concerning parental leaves programs and public...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the relevance of "making work pay" policies from within. We first discuss the various justifications of the motto and then connect them to the existing variety of implementation experiences in Europe. We compare the classical organizarion of arguments behind...

In this paper, we build a renewed labour supply model in order to explain why the RMI recipients don't «fall in poverty traps» but on the contrary accept to work even for low wages. The standard consumption-leisure trade-off is extended : we consider that one needs a minimum consumption level...