[eng] In order to limit the development of traffic congestion, local authorities in numerous cities have tried to encourage the use of public transport. Suchpolicies raise the question of how city centre public highways are to be allocated between several alternative uses, notably car traffic,...

[fre] Comparaison du rendement des régimes de retraite : une approche par cas-types. . Établir une comparaison du rendement des différents régimes de retraite est un exercice difficile, les différents régimes obéissant à des logiques relativement différentes. Cela reste cependant une...

[eng] Retirement Age Choices. Incentives under the General Social Security Scheme Rules and Effects . of the 1993 reform by Louis-Paul Pelé and Pierre Ralle . This paper studies private-sector employees' retirement age choices in the absence of constraints. We start with a brief description of...

This paper examines the evolution of the wage structure in France after 1984. Our data come from two matched employer-employee wage surveys performed in 1986 and 1992. So, we have two cross-sections of establishments and individuals. A subsample of establishments present in both surveys allows...

[fre] Niveau de vie et taille du ménage : estimations d'une échelle d'équivalence . Pour comparer le niveau de vie de ménages de composition différente, le statisticien recourt habituellement à une échelle d'équivalence, de façon à obtenir un revenu par équivalent-adulte. Léchelle...

[fre] Faut-il subventionner les services à domicile ? . En 1 996, plus de 4 millions de ménages expriment le besoin d'une aide de proximité pour la vie quotidienne : activités domestiques courantes, garde d'enfants, etc. Une partie de cette aide peut être fournie par les Emplois Familiaux....

Our paper is concerned with the impact of tax reductions on the demand for services in the home. For that purpose, we consider the particular case of the French legislation voted in 1991. This law allows households employing paid help in the home to deduct from their income tax 50% of the sums...

Our paper examines the impact of tax reductions on the demand for services in the home. For that purpose, we estimate a structural model of demand for such services by using household individual data collected by INSEE (Paris) in 1996. In this model, the net hourly wage paid to the domestic...