Family and the welfare state in Europe (TMR Programme)

Project Directors Prof. Dr. Peter Flora, PD Dr. Thomas Bahle Project Staff Astrid Pfenning EU-funded 1996 – 2000

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.

Publications

Books

  • Pfenning, Astrid, Thomas Bahle (2000): Families and Family Policies in Europe: Comparative Perspectives. Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang. More

Edited Books

  • Fux, Beat, 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 . More

Book Chapters

  • Moors, Hein, Rossella Palomba (Eds.) Fux, Beat (1995): Switzerland: Persisiting Scepticism About pro-Birth Interventions. 221-244. Oxford, Clarendon Press. More

MZES Working Papers

  • Nicolaysen, Bente Blanche (2001): Voluntary Service Provision in a Strong Welfare State. 35, Mannheim, MZES. 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. 12, Mannheim, MZES. More
  • Gardberg Morner, Claudia (2000): Making Ends Meet : Lone Mothers' Local Subsistence Strategies. Case Studies from Italy and Sweden. 13, Mannheim, MZES. More
  • Oinonen, Eriikka (2000): Nations' Different Families? Contrasting Comparison of Finnish and Spanish 'Ideological Families'. 15, Mannheim, MZES. More
  • Strell, Monika (1999): The Housing Situation of Lone-Mother Families: Austria and Finland in a Cross-National Perspective. 2, Mannheim, MZES. More
  • Wendt, Claus (1999): Health Services for Children in Denmark, Germany, Austria and Great Britain. 4, Mannheim, MZES. More
  • Ruspini, Elisabetta (1998): Living on the Poverty Line. Lone Mothers in Belgium, Germany, Great Britan, Italy and Sweden. 28, Mannheim, MZES. More
  • Hellum, Merete (1998): Foreign Wives in the Wake of Tourism. Creating identity on an island in the Greek archipelago. 31, Mannheim, MZES. More
  • Bahle, Thomas, Mathias Maucher, Katherina Fuduli, Beatrix Holzer (1998): Developing a family policy database for Europe. 27, Mannheim, MZES. More
  • Kyllönen, Riitta (1998): The Social Construction of Lone Mothers. A Case Study of the Welfare Service in Venice. 29, Mannheim, MZES. More