L'observation des journées « Economie et Sciences sociales » organisées par l'ENS, les 13 et 14 juin 2002, a donné lieu à ce compte rendu qui analyse les différents modes de confrontation entre les disciplines économie et sciences sociales. La diversité des approches en sciences...

Les agriculteurs qui vivent en couple tendent à se marier davantage que les autres catégories socio-professionnelles, et à moins divorcer. A partir de l’enquête Etude de l’histoire familiale (INSEE/INED 1999) et d’une enquête ethnographique sur les jeunes viticulteurs de la région de...

[eng] Disciplinary decompartmentalization - transfers and misunderstandings -This text gives an account of an interdisciplinary conference, highlighting actual exchanges between economics and social sciences. Institutionnal definitions of the disciplines, though they are operating, do not allow...

The worldwide commercialization of cognac is managed by a handful of big brands owned by multinational corporations operating in the sectors of luxury goods, wine and liquors. These conglomerates purchase their wine and their liquors from approximately 5,000 vine growers established in the...

We use the 1982 and 1993 reforms of the French pension system in the private sector to study the relationship between Social Security benefits and the well-being of the elderly between the late 70s and the beginning of the new century. Affecting people in a different way, depending on year of...

This article aims at linking the household wealth and income distributions for 15 European countries using the Household Finance and Consumption Survey. We study the role played by the household’s location in the income distributions in determining its location in the wealth distribution. A...

We analyze the influence of health and financial incentives on the retirement behavior of older workers in France, building upon Stock and Wise (1990) option value approach. The model accounts for three main retirement routes: the normal retirement, disability insurance (DI) and...