[eng] The dramatic political and institutional changes now occurring in the Soviet Union are likely to have profound consequences on income distribution amongst households, as well as amongst Republics. Even before the onset of the current reform wave had been initiated by M. Gorbatchev, the...

[fre] Les réformes mises en œuvre en Russie dans le cadre de la transition vers l'économie de marchés ont engendré une détérioration sensible des conditions de vie de la population. Les hausses consécutives à la libération des prix décrétée en janvier 1992, la persistance d'une...

[eng] Due to the likely ageing of the French population over the coming decades, the future financing of the current public, « pay-as-you-go » pension system is quite worrisome. If the currently foreseen stagnation of the population materializes, a choice will have to be made between keeping...

[eng] The forthcoming enlargement of the European Union (EU) to Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) will, in many respects, constitute an unprecedented move : no such an increase in size has taken place since Denmark, Ireland and the UK joined in 1972 ; moreover, CEECs' economies all...

[eng] Over the last twenty years, youth unemployment has become a major issue of the French labour market situation. It explains the increasing public intervention in the labour market targeted to the youths. This article tries to shed some light on two main aspects of the youth labour market...

[eng] Statistics of « 44 million in poverty in Europe » have been widely reported, and figures for the proportion in poverty in different countries have entered debates about the allocation of funds in the European Community. This article examines the problem of measuring poverty in rich...

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