Poverty and labor supply of social minima beneficiaries: A microeconometric analysis applied to the case of Reunion Island.

Summary Over the past twenty years, growing unemployment and stagnating poverty have prompted public authorities to implement policies to promote employment. At the same time, the Minimum Integration Income was created for the most disadvantaged. Numerous studies have examined the problems of poverty and the return to work of recipients of minimum social benefits, but the field of study has been restricted to metropolitan France. This thesis is an empirical contribution to the evaluation of poverty and the integration of recipients of social minima in the context of an overseas department with both the highest unemployment rate and the highest rate of people covered by the RMI in France. We assess poverty in the DOM and metropolitan France using the 2001 Family Budget Survey. The integration of recipients of minimum social benefits is evaluated using a database provided by the CAF of Reunion Island, in the context of two public policies: the reform of the incentive system included in the Aubry law against exclusion of 1998 and the alignment of minimum social benefits with the amounts in metropolitan France included in the orientation law of 2000.