Family policy and a social incomes policy

The case of the single‐parent allowance in France

Bibliographic Data

ID9971822
AuthorsMichel Messu (0000-0003-0281-9864, Université de Rennes, corresponding author)
Year1992
Volume45
Issue3
Pages71-82
Publication date1992-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Social Security Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-871X • E-ISSN: 1468-246X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-246x.1992.tb00343.x
OpenAlexW2020813321
LanguageEN
References cited9

From the outset, French family policy has vacillated between several objectives: defending the institution of the family, encouraging childbirth and reducing social inequalities. In the current context of social policy, certain family allowances take on the appearance of veritable social incomes policy measures. Children, in the same way as loss of employment or disablement, give rise to entitlement to social solidarity. This paper will examine the case of the single‐parent allowance, introduced in France in 1976, and will place it in the context of “minimum social incomes”, taken to mean those that afford a modicum of self‐respect, rather than being mere subsistence incomes

Allowance (engineering · Demographic economics · Economics · Labour economics · Market economy · Operations management · Public economics · Social policy · Social Policies and Family · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Sciences and Governance

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