We are proposing a simple measure in order to allow unemployed people who have exhausted their unemployment benefits to go back to work. These people would be hired to work alongside (and then replace) an employee preparing for retirement, who would pass his experience on to the new employee...

The RSA field experiment, conducted between 2007 and 2009 in 34 French departments, intended to evaluate the impact of higher financial incentives to work for beneficiaries of social assistance programs (RMI and API) using a test group which had access to an experimental in-work benefit and a...

This article deals with the subjective perceptions of the causes and consequences of unemployment in France. The analysis is realized using a survey of the research department of labour Ministry based on a representative sample of the French population. We make the hypothesis that a better...

This article takes a gender approach to the analysis of changes in the relationship of reciprocity that links the State and people receiving social benefits targeted at poverty reduction. The counterpart required in exchange for national solidarity is not the same for men and women beneficiaries...

Democracy was constructed with keeping women back: there is no systematic statement excluding them, yet for a long time democracy was held to be applicable only to men. It did not exclude, but it was ?exclusive?: ?Neither citizens nor workers ?precious half of the Republic? as Rousseau says ?...

This paper shows, from an opinion poll on the Perception of inequality and feelings of justice (PISJ 2009), how inequalities and discriminations between men and women are perceived in France. On the whole, these inequalities are judged important and totally unacceptable ? and this opinion is...

This article considers, on the one hand, how public policy shapes gender relations and, on the other, the extent to which gender is a basis for public policy. Based on a literature survey, we distinguished four issues: 1) the Welfare State is moving towards a new form of maternalism in public...

The United States and Europe prohibit wage discrimination and support equal pay between men and women. Beyond the legal standards used in different countries, it is difficult to measure exactly the breadth of pay discrimination which covers entire careers and can stem from different sources. In...

Drawing on the thought of Karl Polanyi, I propose a non-economistic conception of capitalist crisis that can clarify feminist prospects in the current era. Revising his account of the conflict between economic liberals and social protectionists, I introduce a third axis of social struggle,...

We contrast the stability of legal and political definitions of equality, with a particular emphasis on gender equality, and on the ?newspeak? of political and economic debates about diversity. The article examines the role of diversity in the legal and political fields in order to unpack...