Part time work is an employment form which concerns about 70 % of the women, and 40 % of the total Dutch labour forces at all levels of qualification. This article focuses on historic and cultural factors enlightening this situation. It shows the influence of the feminist movement claiming for...

The ageing of the population is a common characteristic to all countries of the European Union. Alone the extent and the calendar of this phenomenon can differ according to countries. The rise of the expectancy life and the ageing of the baby boom generation, associates to a fall of the...

The closing decade for Italy has been marked by the most important fiscal consolidation effort among the euro zone countries. The discretionary dimension of consolidation, although pursued in an unstable political environment, has been significant and the effort entirely structural. Italy has...

Long-term-care benefits provide a particularly telling example of the sorts of problems ?? both old and new ?? which are confronting our system of social-welfare and, more generally, of social policy in France. After having shown that the current situation as well as the perspectives for...

For many sociologists, the death of class is an obvious process: the question of classes has almost disappeared from contemporary social sciences for the last two decades, particularly in France. The aim of this paper is reassess the empirical aspects of this problem. Two different periods...

Society is man-made ?? but also woman-made. In the long term, social institutions are the product of people?'s choices, rather than the cause of them. Two social revolutions in the last three decades have created even greater scope for genuine and free choices and wider opportunities for women....

We explore the consequences of ageing on the French labour force. Baby-boom generations are going to leave gradually the labour market and will be partially replaced by younger ones. Differences in generations size will have an impact on the dependence ratio and therefore on the potential growth...