08/04/2019
New WSF Newsletter: In issue 4/2019 we focus on the Cluster Globalization, Welfare States and Inequalities with reports from the GlobLabWS, 4Is and GiWES projects.
As a special we include a stakeholder reflection in this newsletter. Sigrun Aasland, Director of Analysis at Think Tank Agenda, sums up her views on the program focusing on the benefits of mixing researchers and policy makers. In addition we provide you with the latest information of the 15 WSF projects. We have a new Alumni!
WSF NEWS: Final Newsletter Series - Issue 4/2019 | Research Cluster: GLOBALIZATION, WELFARE STATES & INEQUALITIES, Stakeholder Reflections, New Alumni
Dear WSF Researchers and Stakeholders, This issue of the newsletter is the fourth of five final newsletter issues. Each focuses on three projects from the WSF programme. In this issue we focus on the Cluster Globalization, Welfare States and Inequalities with reports from the GlobLabWS, 4Is a...
11/03/2019
#3 of the WSF Final Newsletter Series is out.
In this issue we focus on three projects from the Migration Research Cluster, with reports from the MobileWelfare, TranJudFare, and UPWEB projects.
Furthermore, Scientifc Programme Coordinator Ellen Immergut reports on some of the key findings of the WSF Research programme as a whole, and their implications for the European Pillar of Social Rights.
WSF NEWS: Final Newsletter Series - Research Cluster: MIGRATION, WSF-SPC Policy Brief
Dear WSF Researchers and Stakeholders, This issue of the newsletter is the third of five final newsletter issues. Each focuses on three projects from the WSF programme. In this issue we focus on three projects from the Migration Research Cluster, with reports from the MobileWelfare, TranJudFa...
14/02/2019
This issue of the newsletter is the second of five final newsletter issues. Each focuses on three projects from the WSF programme. In this issue we focus on welfare attitudes, popular support, and expections of the future welfare state from our welfare state attitudes cluster, with reports from the WelfSOC, MIFARE and FPRWS projects.
WSF NEWS: Final Newsletter Series - Issue 2/2019: WELFARE STATE ATTITUDES Cluster, New Working Paper by Project GlobLabWS, Alumni
Dear WSF Researchers and Stakeholders, This issue of the newsletter is the second of five final newsletter issues. Each focuses on three projects from the WSF programme. In this issue we focus on welfare attitudes, popular support, and expections of the future welfare state from our welfare st...
30/01/2019
Portuguese Healthcare Reforms in the Context of Crisis: External pressure or domestic choice?
by Maria Asensio and Tamara Popic Do governments have restricted room to manoeuver in the context of crisis and external conditionality for welfare reforms? Analysing Portuguese healthcare reforms …
17/01/2019
New Research from the WelfSoc Project: how the different kinds of welfare state remain distinct despite all being affected by major austerity programmes
by Peter Taylor-Gooby Modern welfare states depend on a range of actors: state, market, family/households, employers and charities. Current austerity programmes diminish the contribution of the sta…
29/11/2018
Scottish Government Meeting Discusses the Link Between Labour Market Policy and Economic Performance
by Catia Montagna (Project Leader, GlobLabWS) The results of the Globalisation Labour Markets and the Welfare State (GlobLabWS) project of NORFACE Welfare State Futures programme were presented by …
24/10/2018
New Publication by HiNEWS – Parenthood and Later Life Health: An Intergenerational Life Course Analysis of Parents and Childless Adults Aged 50 and Older
by Nadine Reibling (HiNEWS) In her recently published study in the Swiss Journal of Sociology, Nadine Reibling (together with Katja Möhring) investigated how women’s and men’s fertility history aff…
17/01/2019
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