Resilience and Social Policy
We bring together a range of perspectives on the use and utility of ‘resilience’ in social policy development and related research.
#ESPAnet stream 7, hosted by Mary Daly and myself, as part of the @rEUsilience project: https://espanet-warsaw2023.org/streams/
Hello!
Very excited (and proud) to jointly coordinate this @HorizonEU project with Mary Daly. We have such a great team investigating how to increase #resilience in European Families.
rEUsilience: a European research project across 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇪🇸🇭🇷🇧🇪🇵🇱
We're starting off on our 3 year journey to investigate how families respond to socio-economic shocks and then road test policy solutions for #familyresilience
“Money isn’t everything, but it” sure is a damn long list of essentials.
#Poverty, first and foremost, is lack of money to participate in society.
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Interessante reportage in @nrc over een #pandjeshuis, maar weinig kritisch.
4,5% rente per maand is hetzelfde als 54% #rente op jaarbasis. Bloedzuigers van de #armoede zijn het!
Sweden: Researchers, please pay SEK 5000 and write a 50-page ethics approval to ask politicians about their political party.
Also Sweden: Your personal address, the people you live with, what you paid for your home, your income and tax information and all your work emails? Sure, easily accessible to the public.
This Thursday, on 1 December, the launch of this special issue will be underscored with a public event hosted by the Brookings institute, on "A comparative perspective on policies to support single-parent families"
Sign up here: https://www.brookings.edu/events/a-comparative-perspective-on-policies-to-support-single-parent-families
The paper is part of a special issue (open access untill the end of the year!), with a great group of authors all focus on single parents.
In this volume, the editors "bring together thirty diverse researchers, from several countries, to assess socioeconomic outcomes in single-parent families and, in most cases, to link those outcomes to national-level policies and institutions."
In terms of #policy, supporting high employment rates has long been seen as an effective strategy against poverty. However, the findings show rising employment also represents a displacement in who benefits from employment and who is disadvantaged by the increase in employment of others.
Thus, policies for work-family reconciliation and income protection are particularly important in a dual-earner society, to keep groups that are not—or cannot be—in a dual-earner household from poverty.
I think that the relevance of this paper for theory and policy is twofold.
In terms of #theory, the findings are in line with the work challenging that poverty is mostly related to the individual characteristics of the poor. Instead, poverty is #relational.
#Poverty cannot be solely explained by reference to individuals’ own "socioeconomic background, #family composition, and "policy context, but also requires reference to the #economic activity and composition of other households in society.
This figure shows the a key finding. In countries with low #defamilization (#childcare, left panel), a rise of #dual-earner #households is associated with an increase in poverty among single parents, but not among #couples with children.
With more childcare, these associations disappear (right panel).
The same findings are reported for #decommodification (income protection).
