This paper looks at the notion of work historically and how new meanings have enriched this notion over centuries. It then analyses the importance Europeans give to the concept of work, and presents the ongoing discourse on technological revolution and its impact on work and employment. The...

Over the past several years, many studies have highlighted the strategic nature of working hours, the way they are determined, their regularity and their predictability to judge the qualities of a job and how family life and work life are reconciled. Our results confirm those obtained by...

Economic theory often assumes that the opportunity costs of having a child and financial constraints have a simultaneous but opposite influence on fertility. This empirical paper aims to test the concomitance of these effects using the answers to an original survey carried out in 2003 amongst...

This paper focuses on child renunciations factors, investigating the answers of nearly 1000 employees to a 2003 IPSOS-Chronopost survey. Numerous variables are taken into account simultaneously, evaluating their “caeteris paribus” influence through logistic models estimations. In a nutshell,...

L'objectif de la mission est de décrire et analyser les différents aspects des inégalités, dans l'emploi, la retraite, le chômage et l'inactivité, définir les relations entre le temps et l'organisation du travail d'une part, mettre en évidence les conditions qui font que le risque de...

Alors qu’il est depuis longtemps question de réformer les aides à l’emploi destinées aux salariés les moins bien rémunérés, la difficulté récemment rencontrée par le gouvernement pour baisser les cotisations sociales salariées sur les bas salaires (mesure censurée par le Conseil...

This paper focuses on child renunciations factors, investigating the answers of nearly 1000 employees to a 2003 IPSOS-Chronopost survey. Numerous variables are taken into account simultaneously, evaluating their ??caeteris paribus?? influence through logistic models estimations. In a nutshell,...

In all Western countries, women?s activity and employment rates, as well as their education level, have dramatically increased. Nevertheless, men work much longer, men?s wages are still higher than women?s, and women carry on taking major responsibility for caring work as well. Even if the male...