Both neo-classic economists and feminists defend social and fiscal rights individualisation as a way to incite married women to work by penalising inactive ones. According to us, this is not a good reform direction. Individualisation would reduce both the income of the poorest families and the...

In France, social rights can be either derived rights, obtained through the marriage, or direct rights given by employment. According to the growth of divorces, the first one should be revised. Concerning the second one, as women are less integrated on the labour market than men, they gain less...

Women have worked in the industrial sector since the beginning of the industrial era, and they still do. But female workers have to cope with different working conditions than their male colleagues: these conditions are still demanding, but in a different way. Most of the female workers are...

Gender gaps in unemployment are rarely described in economic literature, but often used to demonstrate how difficult it is for a woman to find a job as easily as a man, when deciding to become active. Covering the last four decades, most of the indicators tone down the inequality; moreover,...

The article intends to evaluate the consequences of changing the mix between private and public health insurance in France, knowing that this evolution is induced de facto by the tendency of the French Social Security to opt for de-reimbursement policies. The analysis is built on a microeconomic...