NOUVEAU - NEW
.
Les services à la personne,
CERC
/
La Documentation française,
Paris, Rapport, n° 8, 147 p., (2008).
Zone géographique / Geographical area : France
PAUVRETE - POVERTY
.
Economic well-being and poverty among the Elderly : An analysis based on a
collective consumption model,
L. Cherchye, B. De Rock and F. Vermeulen,
Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, IZA
discussion paper, n° 3349, February, 31 p., (2008).
Résumé - Summary : We apply the collective consumption model of Browning,
Chiappori and Lewbel (2006) to analyse economic well-being and poverty among the
elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology
that captures the economies of scale of living in a couple, and a sharing rule
that governs the intra-household allocation of resources. The model is applied
to a time series of Dutch consumption expenditure surveys. Our empirical results
indicate substantial economies of scale and a wife’s share that is increasing in
total expenditures. We further calculated poverty rates by means of the
collective consumption model. Collective poverty rates of widows and widowers
turn out to be slightly lower than traditional ones based on a standard
equivalence scale. Poverty among women (men) in elderly couples, however, seems
to be heavily underestimated (overestimated) by the traditional approach.
Finally, we analysed the impact of becoming a widow(er). Based on
cross-sectional evidence, we find that the drop (increase) in material
well-being following the husband’s death is substantial for women in high (low)
expenditure couples. For men, the picture is reversed.
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Pays-Bas / The Netherlands
.
Le faible revenu au Québec : Un état de situation,
CEPE, Centre d'étude
sur la pauvreté et l'exclusion, Québec, 32 p., (2008).
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Canada
.
Sources of equality and inequality : Wages, jobs,
households and redistribution, L. Kenworthy,
Luxembourg Income Study,
Luxembourg, LIS working paper, n° 471, January, 28 p., (2008).
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Comparaisons internationales /
International comparisons
EMPLOI - EMPLOYMENT
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Contracting out placement services in Germany : Is
assignment to private providers effective for needy job-seekers ?,
S. Bernhard and J. Wolff,
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung,
Mannheim, IAB-discussion paper, n° 5/2008, 38 p., (2008).
Résumé - Summary : Contracting out placement services aims at enhancing
the effectiveness of placements of unemployed job-seekers through market
mechanisms. This paper analyses the effectiveness of the temporary assignment of
needy job-seekers to private placement services by comparing their outcomes with
respect to employment, unemployment and benefit receipt with those of a suitable
control group. Using recently available administrative data we apply propensity
score matching to construct the control group. We regard a period after a policy
reform in 2005 that introduced a new means-tested benefit, the unemployment
benefit II, and emphasized the activation of needy unemployed people.
Hard-to-place job-seekers usually need more effort to be placed into a job.
Therefore it is an interesting question whether groups of people with different
a priori employment probabilities benefit to a different extent from an
assignment to a private placement service. To answer this question we analyse
several subgroups separated by sex, age, migration background, occupational
education and time since the last job. Our results suggest that in some cases
the assignment to private providers is relatively more effective for groups of
job-seekers who are rather hard to place. Despite positive employment effects
for some subgroups, however our results imply that the assignment to private
providers is generally ineffective and in some subgroups counterproductive
regarding the goal of avoiding unemployment and benefit receipt.
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Allemagne / Germany
.
L'emploi des femmes dans les sciences et les
technologies, T. Meri,
Eurostat,
Luxembourg, Statistiques en bref, science et technologie, n°
10/2008, 8 p., (2008).
English version "Women
employed in science and technology"
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Europe
.
L'évolution des structures et des services aux demandeurs d'emploi
in
Rapport public annuel,
Cour des
Comptes, Paris, 27 p., (2008).
Zone géographique / Geographical area : France
.
La misura dell'occupazione non regolare nelle stime di
contabilità nazionale.
Anni 1980-2005,
Istat,
Roma, Statistiche in breve, febbraio, 20 p., (2008 ).
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Italie / Italy
.
What we're in for : Projected economic impact of the
next recession, J. Schmitt and D. Baker,
Center for Economic Policy
Research, Washington, January, 13 p., (2008).
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Etats-Unis / United States
REVENU - INCOME
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Les enseignants, leur rémunération et leur niveau de vie,
1982-2005,
D. Goux et E. Maurin,
CEPREMAP, Paris, Docweb, n° 0802, février, 19 p., (2008).
Zone géographique / Geographical area : France
.
Epargne retraite et redistribution,
A. Direr,
CEPREMAP, Paris, Docweb, n° 0804, février, 18 p., (2008).
Zone géographique / Geographical area : France
.
Good intentions
are not enough : Why raising New York's minimum wage continues to be poor way to
help the working poor, J. J. Sabia and R. V. Burkhauser,
Employment Policies
Institute, Washington, January, 15 p., (2008).
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Etats-Unis / United States
.
The household wealth distribution in Spain : The role of housing and financial
wealth, F. Azpitarte,
Ecineq, Palma de Mallorca, Ecineq working paper, n°
83, January, 30 p., (2008).
Résumé - Summary : We analyse the distribution of
household wealth in Spain using the first wave of the Spanish Survey of
Household Finances, conducted by the Bank of Spain in 2002. We study the
distribution of the different wealth components and, using inequality
decomposition techniques, we assess the contribution of each element to overall
wealth inequality. We find that wealth is more unequally distributed than income,
while housing wealth is much more evenly distributed than financial wealth.
Moreover, we identify two groups of wealth components: one disequalizing group,
which includes financial wealth, whose value and portfolio share increase with
household wealth; and a second more equalizing one, including housing wealth,
whose value increases with wealth, but their share in the portfolio does not.
Finally, we show that differences between age groups do not explain why wealth
is much more unequally distributed than income. Instead, business and home
ownership are factors that clearly contribute to explain this feature.
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Espagne / Spain
.
Racing away ?
Income inequality and the evolution of high incomes,
M. Brower, L. Sibieta and L. Wren-Lewis,
The Institute for Fiscal Studies,
London, IFS briefing note, n° 76, 35 p., (2008).
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Royaume-Uni / United Kingdom
.
Le revenu des
ménages privés dans les régions de l'Union européenne : 2004,
A. Krüger,
Eurostat, Luxembourg,Statistiques en bref, statistiques générales et régionales, n°
8/2008, 8 p., (2008).
English version "Private
household income in the regions of the European Union, 2004"
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Europe
AUTRES DONNEES SOCIALES - OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES
.
Au fil des lettres du Cepii, une chronique de la
mondialisation, A. Bénassy-Quéré, A. Chevallier et M. Fouquin,
Cepii,
Paris, La lettre du Cepii, n° 274, janvier, 6 p., (2008).
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Données internationales /
International data
.
Statistiche della previdenza e dell’assistenza sociale.
I beneficiari delle prestazioni pensionistiche.
(Anno 2005),
Istat,
Roma, febbraio, 126 p., (2008 ).
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Italie / Italy
.
Étude de cas : France », dans L’enseignement,
l’apprentissage et l’évaluation des adultes : pour de meilleures compétences de
base,
B. Michel et E. Maroun,
OCDE, Paris, 69 p., (2008).
Zone géographique / Geographical area : France
.
Propositions pour une relance de la politique de
l'hébergement et de l'accès au logement, E. Pinte, La
Documentation Française, Paris, 17 p., (2008).
Zone géographique / Geographical area : France