Family and the welfare state in Europe (TMR Programme)

Research question/goal: 

This project is based on the international project 'Family changes and family policies in comparative perspective'. It offers scholarships for young social scientists for research stays at the European partner institutes of the project where they receive training on the job, work in the project and on their own comparative studies in the field of family and the welfare state. In addition, a series of workshops is offered to discuss ongoing studies.

Fact sheet

Funding: 
EU
Duration: 
1996 to 2000
Status: 
completed
Geographic Space: 
Western and Central Europe (EU and Norway, Switzerland, Poland and Hungary)

Publications

Books

Pfenning, Astrid, and Thomas Bahle (2000): Families and Family Policies in Europe: Comparative Perspectives. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. more
Fux, Beat, and Jürgen Dorbritz (Eds.) (1997): Einstellungen zur Familienpolitik in Europa. Ergebnisse eines vergleichenden Surveys in den Ländern des "European Comparative Survey on Population Policy Acceptance (PPA)". München. [Schriftenreihe des BIB] more

Book Chapters

Fux, Beat (1995): Switzerland: Persisiting Scepticism About pro-Birth Interventions. Pp. 221-244 in: Hein Moors, Rossella Palomba (Eds.) Population, Family and Welfare. A Comparative Survey of European Attitudes. Oxford: Clarendon Press. more

MZES Working Papers

Nicolaysen, Bente Blanche (2001): Voluntary Service Provision in a Strong Welfare State. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 35] more
Gardberg Morner, Claudia (2000): Making Ends Meet : Lone Mothers' Local Subsistence Strategies. Case Studies from Italy and Sweden. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 13] more
Laaksonen, Helena (2000): Young Adults in Changing Welfare States: Prolonged Transitions and Delayed Entries for Under-30s in Finland, Sweden and Germany in the '90s. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 12] more
Oinonen, Eriikka (2000): Nations' Different Families? Contrasting Comparison of Finnish and Spanish 'Ideological Families'. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 15] more
Strell, Monika (1999): The Housing Situation of Lone-Mother Families: Austria and Finland in a Cross-National Perspective. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 2] more
Wendt, Claus (1999): Health Services for Children in Denmark, Germany, Austria and Great Britain. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 4] more
Bahle, Thomas, Mathias Maucher, Katherina Fuduli and Beatrix Holzer (1998): Developing a family policy database for Europe. Mannheim [Arbeitsbereich I; 27] more
Hellum, Merete (1998): Foreign Wives in the Wake of Tourism. Creating identity on an island in the Greek archipelago. Mannheim [Arbeitsbereich I; 31] more
Kyllönen, Riitta (1998): The Social Construction of Lone Mothers. A Case Study of the Welfare Service in Venice. Mannheim [Arbeitsbereich I; 29] more
Ruspini, Elisabetta (1998): Living on the Poverty Line. Lone Mothers in Belgium, Germany, Great Britan, Italy and Sweden. Mannheim [Arbeitsbereich I; 28] more
Scheiwe, Kirsten (1997): New Demands for Social Protection - Changing Family Structures, Women's Roles and Institutional Responses. The Case of the German Long-term Care Insurance. Mannheim [Arbeitsbereich I; 19] more