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Dutton, Paul V. Origins of the French welfare state: The struggle for social reform in France, 1914–1947. (Cambridge UP, 2002). online; Mattera, Paolo. "Changes and turning points in welfare history. A case study: a comparison of France and Italy in the 1940s." Journal of Modern Italian Studies 22.2 (2017): 232–253. Nord, Philip.
Its main expenditure is on benefits for the sickness branch of the general scheme (€198.3 billion) and benefits for the old-age branch of the general scheme (€126.3 billion). Social security benefit fraud is relatively low (€2.3 billion), lower than social security contribution fraud by companies (€6.8 to €8.4 billion), and much lower ...
The Revenu de solidarité active (RSA) is a French social welfare benefit that supplements the income of a person who is destitute or has few resources, in order to guarantee a minimum income. It replaced the former RMI in 2009. In return, depending on the situation, its beneficiaries are obliged to look for a job, to take up an activity and to ...
The state scheme is financed by a payroll tax known as "social security contributions". The rate in 2013 is 15.15% (8.4% for the employer and 6.75% for the employee) of pay up to the social security contribution ceiling of €37,032, and 1.7% (1.6% for the employer and 0.1% for the employee) on the remainder of the salary. [7]
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These tables are lists of social welfare spending as a percentage of GDP compiled by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") into the OECD Social Expenditure Database which "includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level." [1]
Social expenditure as % of GDP (). A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions ...
France has a long tradition of social and state intervention in the provision of housing. In 1775, the Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans was built with a part dedicated to house workers. [1] In the 19th century the cités ouvrières (company towns) appeared, inspired by the Phalanstère of Charles Fourier. [2]