H2020Индивидуална стипендия2020–2022

FAMPOT · Family Policy Measurement Tool: Advanced Methodologies for Understanding Inequalities in Family Policy

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2020-10-01 → 2022-09-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 178 320 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Семейните политики, като обезщетенията по отпуск за родителство, се анализират чрез нов инструмент за данни, за да се види кой всъщност ползва от тях. Това помага да се разбере дали тези правила намаляват неравенството между мъже и жени или го засилват.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Family Policy Measurement Tool: Advanced Methodologies for Understanding Inequalities in Family Policy

Parenthood has a profound effect on people's lives. Not only for the joy it can bring but also for the consequences associated with people's individual and family income. It is an established fact that although parenthood has an impact on both parents, it disproportionately affects women compare to men. Following parenthood, women are less likely to be working or work less hours compare to men. They also earn less and save less into their pensions. Family policies, like parental leave or child benefits, were designed to correct for the gender inequality by encouraging and enabling women to stay on the labour market after they become mothers. The state support from the family policies is, however, build on many rules that determine who is entitled to the support and how big should this support be. Since these rules can be very complex, we know little about who is benefiting from these policies and who is losing out on support. The first objective of the project is to create a tool that can use existing data we have from various social surveys and find their respondents who can benefit from family policies and those who cannot. Such a tool has a strong potential to uncover not only gender inequalities but also inequalities between women with different socio-economic background. This tool will help us understand how well family policies are doing in tackling gender and socio-economic inequalities or whether they might be contributing to the social problem. Such information is crucial for understanding how family policies work and how they can be improved to benefit all parents and carers. However, family policy design is not the only reason why some parents might benefit from state support than others. Another important problem arise when parents who are entitled to support from family policy programmes do not receive it. There are several reasons for the so-called non-take-up of social benefits. Nonetheless, one of the main reasons is the lack of knowledge either about the policy or one's own entitlements. Despite that, we know little about what do people actually know about family policies and their own entitlements. For that reason, the second objective of the project is to find out what people know about family policies and whether their knowledge changes as they are growing older, build romantic relationships and settle down.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Family policies impact upon many aspects of people’s lives such as couples’ income dynamics, engagement in childcare activities or labour market participation. However, the degree to which these mechanisms vary between people with different socio-economic statuses is not well understood. Consequently, we don’t know who benefits from these policies and who is losing out on support. A policy measurement tool capable of recognising the family policy entitlements of each individual would provide an unprecedented insight into how well specific populations are protected against various social risks. Not only that, it would allow researchers to map the generosity of family policies across countries with greater accuracy and to test the effect of family policies on human behaviour with greater precision. Insufficient knowledge of the mechanisms through which policies influence people’s lives and the potentially differential effect of various family policies on people’s income and living conditions considerably limit our ability to provide effective policy recommendations that would lead to desirable outcomes. This MSCA Fellowship aims to create such a measurement tool and use it in the investigation of gender and socio-economic inequality in access to family policy support for families with young children (maternity, paternity, parental and childcare leave, child-related cash benefits, and childcare allowances). The main objectives of this MSCA Fellowship are (1) to improve existing policy measurement tools to advance our ability to recognise and analyse structural inequalities in access to family policy support, (2) to investigate gender and socio-economic inequalities in access to family policies across EU and EEA countries, and (3) to explore gender and socio-economic differences in awareness about family policy entitlements and preferences for uptake.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN · LeuvenКоординаторБелгия