Country: Sweden

DAISIE 

DAISIE investigates the gendered impacts of policies aimed at extending working life (EWL). The project has four research objectives:

  1. Analyse EWL policies from a gender-sensitive perspective;
  2. Trace intra-national continuities and change in gendered employment and family formation patterns over time;
  3. Assess the current working conditions of the 50+ group;
  4. Explore the wellbeing and health issues faced by male and female 50+ workers in three contrasting occupations.

Final Conference – Call for papers

Organiser: Karlstad University, Sweden and Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this event will take place exclusively on-line
Dates: May 25–26, 2021

See here for more information on the conference

TRISP

TRISP develops structural household life-cycle models in macroeconomic environments to evaluate the effects of inequality in income, wealth, hours worked and consumption on welfare, and to quantitatively decompose the trends in inequality into their various sources. We then use these models to evaluate the impact of fiscal and monetary policies on inequality and to characterize welfare improving policies.

PII

PII investigates the argument that the underlying driver of populism is lifetime shifts in economic inequality, caused by on-going economic transformation through technological change and import competition. The underlying dynamics are hypothesised to display similar patterns of change across countries.

However, the pattern of populist attitudes may differ, depending on how such long-term change can be mediated through institutions, education, retraining and upgrading; and how the effect of populist attitudes is magnified via electoral and party institutions.

IMCHILD

IMCHILD analyses:

  1. How circumstances in childhood affect influential decisions which mark individuals’ transition to adulthood (educational and occupational choices, family formation etc.);
  2. How these decisions translate into social and economic outcomes (e.g. labour market performance, well-being, (early) retirement decisions) at later stages in life. We aim to identify causal mechanisms via which social and economic advantages are transmitted from one generation to another, reproducing and reinforcing inequalities in the society.

CRITEVENTS

CRITEVENTS studies the impact of two critical life events – job loss and union dissolution – on the life trajectories of adults and their children.

The main objectives are to understand:

  1. How job loss and union dissolution contribute to the accumulation of (dis)advantage over the life course;
  2. What mechanisms explain the (unequal) impact of these events;
  3. Which work and family policies are effective in targeting these mechanisms in order to reduce inequality.