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L’évolution de l’assurance contre l’incendie : préface

Philippe Grégoire
Cette préface introduit la reprise de l'article écrit par M. Gérard Parizeau en 1957 dans la revue Assurances. Elle reprend aussi certains éléments de l'histoire de la revue.

L’évolution de l’assurance contre l’incendie

Gérard Parizeau
Cet article relate les développements importants de l'assurance des débuts jusqu'en 1957, en mettant l'emphase sur l'assurance incendie au Canada. Il a paru dans la revue Assurances en 1957 (volume 25, no 2, pages 67-118).

Protection sociale des travailleurs du secteur informel au Cameroun : une analyse de la demande

Mathieu Juliot Mpabe Bodjongo
This paper aims to examine the subscription of entrepreneurs in the informal sector to the public social protection system in Cameroon. The analysis covers a sample of 4598 promoters of informal production units (UPI), obtained from the 2nd phase of the second survey on employment and the informal sector in Cameroon (INS, 2010). Based on the review of the economic literature, the econometric results obtained using a Probit estimation with selection bias reveal that entrepreneurs in the informal sector will be less inclined to adhere to a system of public social protection offering the following social benefits: old age insurance, invalidity insurance, family allowance and occupational sickness allowance.

Représentations sociales de l’assurance : étude comparative chez les étudiants français et sénégalais

Boubacar Coulibaly, Jean-Claude Étoundi and Pahlavan Farzaneh
The objective of this paper is to compare the social representation of insurance among French and Senegalese. Assuming a different social representation induced by the social context, the study was conducted among French (N=186) and Senegalese (N=136) students. Data collected through free associations questionnaires were subjected to hierarchical analysis. The analysis highlights a difference in the structuring of the social representation of insurance centred on concerns in line with the socio-economic environment of each of the two groups. These results are in line with the principle of distance from the object which drives the construction of social representation noted in several studies.