Social inequality in the face of death*
By Gilles Le Garrec The problem of inequality in the face of death has become an important topic in French public discourse in recent times, […]
Social inequality
What minimum wage for Germany?
By Odile Chagny and Sabine Le Bayon The campaign for the parliamentary elections taking place on 22 September in Germany has engendered a broad debate […]
2013 pensions: a (little) reform…
By Henri Sterdyniak The measures announced by the government on August 27th do not constitute a major reform of the pension system. As shown in […]
How can one defend the 1%?
By Guillaume Allègre In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives[1], Harvard Professor and bestselling textbook author Greg Mankiw defends the income earned […]
Roofs or ceilings?
by Philippe Weil The bill to promote access to housing and urban renovation provides for regulating rents “mainly in urban areas where there is a […]
Pensions: the Moreau report’s poor compromise
By Henri Sterdyniak Under pressure from the financial markets and Europe’s institutions, the government felt obliged to present a new pension reform in 2013. However, […]
Reforming the conjugal quotient
By Guillaume Allègre and Hélène Périvier As part of a review of family benefit programmes (the motivations for which are in any case debatable), the […]
Inequality and Global Imbalances: reconsidering old ideas to address new problems
by Jean-Luc Gaffard and Francesco Vona The main challenge of the Bretton Woods agreements was to reconcile social justice and full employment to be achieved […]
Housing and the city: the new challenges
By Sabine Le Bayon, Sandrine Levasseur and Christine Rifflart The residential real estate market is a market like no other. Since access to housing is […]
What kind of pension reform for 2013?
In a speech on 28 March, Francois Hollande raised the 20 billion euro deficit forecast for 2020 in order to announce a further extension of […]