This study uses a time-based approach to examine 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...

[eng] The paper describes the CNAV microsimulation model. Currently under construction, it has two aims : to evaluate the future pension rights of private sector employees to 2030, in terms of both mass and scatter, and to measure the savings or costs generated by new measures. Particular...

We use a typology of urban areas as an instrument to understand the differences and the inequalities into mainland France. It exists large differences between the cities ; they are not facing the same problems. In France, there are 354 urban areas which represent 18.4 millions households and...

L’objectif de cette étude est d’estimer l’impact de certaines conditions de travail sur des indicateurs de dépenses de santé et de mesurer l’effet agrégé sur les dépenses de santé de la collectivité. Notre analyse empirique repose sur un échantillon de salariés âgés de 18 à...

Since the 1980s, different French governments have formulated public policies aimed at taking into account the specific problems of deprived neighbourhoods. The aim of this paper is to determinate the existence of a neighbourhood effect on health and to discuss the implementation of a...

In nearly every industrialized country, large aging populations and increased life expectancy have placed enormous pressure on social security programs—and, until recently, the pressure has been compounded by a trend toward retirement at an earlier age. With a larger fraction of the population...

The French pattern of early transitions out of employment is basically explained by the low age at "normal" retirement and by the importance of transitions through unemployment insurance and early-retirement schemes before access to normal retirement. These routes have exempted French workers...