This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households....

Previous empirical work has shown that the self-employed are generally more satisfied than salaried workers. This paper contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, using French data from the ECHP and British data from the BHPS, we investigate the domains over which this...

Die Aufwertung des Themas der Versorgungsqualität in westlichen Gesundheitssystemen ging mit der Einführung neuer Institutionen und Instrumente einher. Ein deutsch-französischer Vergleich verdeutlicht, wie die Steuerung der Gesundheitssektoren beider Länder durch dieses Programm verändert...