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years In France, a male manager live on average 6 years longer than a peer worker. Social differences therefore also affect longevity. However, in women, this gap is less marked. Only 3 years between managers and workers. This was announced by  an Insee report.

The latest data from the French National Institute of Statistics (INSEE) show the relationship between wealth and poverty which is directly proportional in a given country. In France in 2009, there was an increase of 0.5% of poor people, symmetrically there was a +0.4% of the median standard of [...]

Perceived more as an expense rather than a gain, the no-profit sector is a real source of wealth for the French economy. According to the latest data of the Institute of National Statistics (INSEE), in fact, institutions of the Third Sector, in 2008, have employed 900,000 people, 3%of employees' total [...]

The inhabitants of Luxembourg guide, with a positive gap of 50%, the special classification on the level of consumption per capita in Europe. On the second and third places we can find the British and the Dutch people, followed closely, also in the upper tiers of the "championship", by Germans, [...]

Precarious employment in France would reached its highest peak and now it is gradually declining. This is the hypothesis supported by INSEE in the 2011 "Job and salary" report that analyzes the labor market evolution and the wage changes during 1990-2008 period. It stresses the exponential growth of fixed-term contracts and [...]

+600 % In the region of Paris, the standard of living of the richest 10% of the population is 6 times higher (+600%) than that of the poorest 10%. This has been  released by the INSEE in a report published last April 29.

In France, 21% of the children of immigrants live below the poverty line, essentially the double (10.6%)  than those who have both French parents. This emerged from an Insee’s study, which also calculates the average annual income of children of immigrants, € 19,570, and that concerning French people’s ones € [...]

+21% In France, according to the Monster Index, in March 2011 the number of  job offers posted on the Internet grew by 21% in comparison with last year. A sign of economic recovery, also confirmed by Insee data on business creation in the first quarter 2011: 155 thousand new enterprises, half [...]

Public sector workers over the age of 50 are more computer literate than those of the private sector: 87% vs 68%. This emerged from a Insee study on the use of the most modern technological tools in the French labour market. This can be explained by the higher number of [...]

Spanning the private and public sectors, the third sector groups thousand of organizations together in France, mainly committed in the social field, which in 2008 employed around 10% of all French workers. In most cases they are small enterprises with few staff. Yet some companies covering all national territory have [...]