Ecart grandissant entre les niveaux de vie des jeunes et des vieux; envolee preoccupante des transferts publics a destination des plus ages (sante, retraite); bouleversement des relations et comportements familiaux (coresidence prolongee avec les jeunes enfants adultes par exemple): ces...

Introduction generale et litteraire a une economie des solidarites (fondements, avantages, inconvenients, exemples), ce texte rappelle tout d'abord les origines francaises du terme -juridiques, sociohistoriques et anthropologiques- en rapprochant notamment les analyses de Leon Bourgeois et John...

Seconde partie de l'etude consacree a l'economie des solidarites, ce texte se concentre plus specifiquement sur le probleme du financement des viux jours et les solutions possibles: ne peuvent compter que sur soi-meme; recourir a ses enfants et a la famille; tabler sur l'Etat-providence et les...

We examine the pattern of inter-vivos transfers and bequests in France, using both administrative records and household surveys. We first present the French institutional and fiscal setting of wealth transmission; then the usual economic models of behaviour, their link to fiscal system and their...

In a prevailing climate of increasing uncertainty (rising risk of unemployment, pension funding problems and unstable family structures), French households have adopted new saving behavior reflected during the nineties, primarily by considerable investment in life insurance products...

In a prevailing climate of increasing uncertainty (rising risk of unemployment, pension funding problems and unstable family structures), French households have adopted new saving behavior reflected during the nineties, primarily by considerable investment in life insurance and its derivative...