http://su.avedas.com/converis/ws/public/feed/simple/rss/Person/820/Contract Ferrarini, Tommy (Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)) Thu, 23 May 2013 02:00:18 GMT 2013-05-23T02:00:18Z http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/1954 Den svenska tvåförsörjarmodellen har visat sig möjliggöra kombinationen av relativt högt kvinnligt förvärvsarbete, barnafödande och arbetsmotivation med låg barnfattigdom. Hur familjepolitiken och arbetsmarknaden tillsammans är kopplade till upplevd stress i hem och arbete är däremot i stort sett outforskat. Det hävdas ibland att tvåförsörjarlinjen ökar stressen, och att framförallt kvinnor får bära de dubbla bördor som långa arbetsdagar och arbete i hemmet innebär. Om detta är fallet skulle den långsiktiga hållbarheten i den svenska familjepolitiken och arbetsmarknaden kunna ifrågasättas. Utifrån ett annat teoretiskt perspektiv har det påpekats att tvåförsörjarmodellen istället underlättar kombinationen av betalt och obetalt arbete, något som motverkar uppkomsten av stress. Projektets syfte är att analysera kopplingen mellan familjepolitik, arbetsmarknad och individers upplevda stress och svårigheter att förena familjeliv och arbete i Sverige och 20 andra välfärdsdemokratier. Genom att i flernivåanalyser kombinera ny komparativ data över familjepolitik och arbetsmarknad med mikrodata över olika utfall, kan dessa institutioners separata och kombinerade inverkan på stressrelaterade utfall utvärderas. Den upplevda stressens tydliga genuskaraktär gör det viktigt att inte enbart ha ett genusperspektiv på familjepolitiken utan även i analysen av arbetsmarknadens betydelse. Sat, 22 May 2010 02:01:40 GMT http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/1954 Tommy Ferrarini 2010-05-22T02:01:40Z http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/2239 The Linnaeus Centre on Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe is designed to generate and convey to policy-makers clear and compelling evidence on the relationship of social policy to family dynamics. Previous research has had limited success in identifying links between family policies and fertility. Few studies have incorporated in their designs the other life events that are strongly associated with childbearing -- leaving the parental home, finishing education, establishing oneself in the labour and housing markets, entering cohabitation or marriage, or experiencing union dissolution. The Centre’s research program will fill these gaps by applying a clear conceptualization of social policies and their effects; research designs that take advantage of critical junctures across time, space, and usage; high quality data on family dynamics and policy contexts; and state-of-the art modeling and statistical analysis. Policy domains to be studied include parental benefits, education, labour markets and conditions of work, and housing. The Centre would bring together experts in social policy analysis and demography from the Demography Unit in the Department of Sociology, the Swedish Institute for Social Research, and the Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, and expand collaborations with several international scholars. Centre researchers will also develop new data infrastructures to support future research on social policy and family dynamics. Sat, 22 May 2010 02:01:56 GMT http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/2239 Elizabeth Thomson, Tommy Ferrarini, Bo Malmberg 2010-05-22T02:01:56Z http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/3767 The need to move from descriptive to causal analyses of social change has long been recognized in the social sciences. Due to the difficulties of conducting experimental studies social scientists use comparisons between countries and over time as fruitful strategies to analyze central processes in modern societies. The lack of relevant and reliable data has hitherto constrained comparative research, particularly in the field of social policy where expenditure data often is used. Comparative welfare state research requires more precise indicators on the institutional design of social policies in areas that are crucial for living conditions and capabilities of citizens. This type of institutional information cannot easily be generated from extant data sources. Instead, a considerable amount of basic research is required concerning the organizational setups of welfare states and new institutional indicators must be developed to address key research questions on social policy and welfare states. The purpose of this infrastructural project is to establish the foundations of a new comparative and longitudinal database concerning central welfare state institutions, the Social Policy Indicator Database. The database establishes institutional indicators on national cash benefit legislation and initiates collection of indicators covering also other central areas of the welfare state including social service provision, fiscal systems and tax benefits. Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:49:27 GMT http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/3767 Tommy Ferrarini 2010-10-24T11:49:27Z http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/3948 Social policies and the organization of welfare states reflect different ideas about distributive justice between generations. The sustainability of social policies in relation to ageing populations and the return of mass unemployment is dependent on the organization of generational welfare contracts. Unbalanced contracts may arise when social rights are not evenly distributed across the life cycle. This may reinforce conflicts of interests, creating obstacles for the realization of social solidarity for long characterizing the Swedish welfare state. This project applies theories of justice to the study of social policy institutions, generational structures and their distributive implications. Since the basic principles of welfare states change relatively slowly in single countries, comparisons between countries are important when evaluating the consequences of different policy choices. The project consists of three parts: a theoretical and conceptual analysis of generational justice, a comparative institutional analysis of life cycle related programs of the welfare state, and, finally, an analysis of the latter’s distributive effects. We combine sociological perspectives on the development of the welfare state and its distributive consequences with a political science perspective on justice and equality thereby uniting two strong scientific traditions that much too often are carried out separately in the analysis of the welfare state. The linking of theory and empirical analysis improves the knowledge about relationships between justice, social policy and distribution over the life cycle. Which principles of generational justice can be discerned in different welfare states? What are the distributive consequences of different social policy models? For example, to what extent do the needs of the retired conflict with the needs of younger generations? The project contributes with new knowledge in an area of great social scientific and socio-political relevance. Sat, 04 Dec 2010 02:00:18 GMT http://su.avedas.com/converis/contract/3948 Tommy Ferrarini, Simon Birnbaum 2010-12-04T02:00:18Z