[fre] Depuis plusieurs années, on assiste à un débat pour savoir si les systèmes publics de retraite réduisent l'épargne des ménages. Cette note montre que le modèle du cycle de vie, qui sous-tend la plupart des études empiriques sur le sujet n'est pas adéquat pour traiter l'épargne...

The present paper analyzes the budgetary impact of various Social Security reforms in the Belgian institutional setting. Our approach relies on parameters that were derived in Dellis et alii (2002) using a micro-modeling strategy. focusing our attention on a hypothetical age cohort, we...

The current health crisis has particularly affected the elderly population. Nursing homes have unfortunately experienced a relatively large number of deaths. On the basis of this observation and working with European data (from SHARE), we want to check whether nursing homes were lending...