FamIne - Families of Inequalities

The FamIne project investigates the change in social and economic inequalities associated with the new welfare-work-family equilibria emerging over the recent decades. It does so in a strict international comparison, following an interdisciplinary approach among sociology, economy and demography.

It focuses, among other,  on the following aspects:

• changing in women’s labour market and fertility behaviour
• labour market risks
• families’ capacities to compensate for (increasing market) risks
• the consequences of these developments for social and economic life time inequalities in European societies

The aim of the project is to show how the new welfare-work-family (dis)equilibria may come with serious consequences for European societies and their capacity to fully integrate their populations, assuring decent employment conditions, adequate social rights and full social participation.

Of substantial interest hereby is the life time inequality as a potential menace to equity and social cohesion.

 Brown Bag Seminars

The project is hosted by the Department of Sociology and Social Research, Trento University, and has a duration of four years (Dec 2010- Dec 2014). Project activities include a seminar series, several one-day conferences/Workshops, the organization of an international conferences and a working paper series.