The Generations and Gender Survey (GGS) is one of the two pillars of the Generations and Gender Programme designed to improve understanding of demographic and social development and of the factors that influence these developments. This article describes how the theoretical perspectives applied...

Since the 1980s, working conditions in France have been deteriorating, notably as a result of organizational changes in the industrial and business environment. Older employees make up a group that is particularly vulnerable to this sort of transformation. We will therefore examine to what...

The labour markets of the centrally planned economies of Central Europe (the former Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland) were divided into several segments. Using estimates taken from a two-regime model, we show that segmentation has persisted throughout the first years of systemic change....

The current total fertility rate in France is around 1.9 children per woman. This is a relatively high level by current European standards and makes France an outlier, despite the fact that its other demographic trends, especially conjugal behaviour, and social and economic trends are not very...

La façon dont Les enfants et Les attitudes à l’égard du rôLe des hommes et des femmes influencent la participation des femmes au marché du travail est examinée pour deux pays dont le type d’État-providence et les normes de genre dif-fèrent : la France et la Russie. Les auteurs...

Les mesures d'aide à la conciliation de la vie familiale et de la vie professionnelle proposées par les employeurs prennent plus fréquemment la forme de contributions financières que d'aides en nature. Elles sont d'autant plus répandues qu'elles sont ponctuelles. Ainsi les crèches...

Employers' family-friendly policies generally take the form of financial support rather than benefits in kind. Occasional benefits and services are much more common than those granted on a regular basis. Corporate day care centres are still very rare, for example, despite the fact that employers...