A minimum wage in Germany: a small step for Europe, a big one for Germany
By Odile Chagny (Ires) and Sabine Le Bayon After several months of parliamentary debate, a minimum wage will be phased in between 2015 and 2017 […]
Social welfare
How can a basic income be defended?
By Guillaume Allègre Following the submission of 125,000 signatures collected by organizations supporting the introduction of a basic income, Swiss citizens will vote in a […]
France-Germany: is there a demographic dividend?
By Vincent Touzé Thanks to a high birth rate, France is aging less quickly than Germany. According to Eurostat, the French population is expected to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Family benefits: family business?
By Hélène Périvier Bertrand Fragonard has submitted his report to the Prime Minister; it aims, first, to enhance the redistributive nature of family policy and, […]
How to reform the reduction on payroll taxes?
By Mathieu Bunel, Céline Emond, Yannick L’Horty More than 20 billion euros are spent every year by the State to compensate the general exemptions from […]