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mKBO: Multi-Group Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Open

Rense Nieuwenhuis, Max Thaning · 2025

Intergenerational Inequalities in Economic Volatility Open

Edvin Syk, Max Thaning, Rense Nieuwenhuis · 2025

Income volatility has increased in many Western countries, with recent evidence suggesting more pronounced increases at the top of the income distribution. We study heterogeneous patterns of labor market volatility across the life course i…

mKBO: Multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Open

Max Thaning, Rense Nieuwenhuis · 2025

This paper introduces the multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca (mKBO) decomposition, a methodological innovation that extends the traditional KBO approach beyond binary group comparisons. While conventional KBO decompositions require potenti…

Five blindspots in reform studies of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy Open

Rense Nieuwenhuis, Mara A. Yerkes, Lovisa Backman, Jakob Strigén · 2025

Policy reform evaluations are an important source of knowledge regarding the (in)effectiveness of policies and have become increasingly influential in informing policymaking. A key advantage of these studies lies in their careful descripti…

The Employment and Poverty Paradox: A Causal Puzzle and a Family Affair Open

Max Thaning, Rense Nieuwenhuis · 2025

While micro-level research shows that employed individuals are less likely to experience poverty, macro-level trends reveal disappointing poverty reduction despite substantial employment growth across European countries – constituting an e…

Context specificity of childcare out-of-pocket costs and child-contingent benefits Open

Toon Van Havere, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Max Thaning, Wim Van Lancker, Gerlinde Verbist · 2025

This deliverable set out to analyse the context-specificity of financial support policies for families with children and (out-of-pocket fees for) childcare services, two policy areas that feature prominently in rEUsilience recommendations …

Institutionalised power or crisis corporatism? Comparing Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic Open

Jakob Strigén, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Minna van Gerven, zamzam elmi, Aino Salmi · 2025

The social partners often attain a more central role in decision-making during social or economic crises. This article examines whether this held true in Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic. These are countries…

Tripartite alliances for vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from the Eurofound PolicyWatch database Open

Garima Singh, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Minna van Gerven · 2025

This article connects crisis corporatism with welfare regime and labour market segmentation theories to examine the responsiveness of social dialogue during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the Eurofound EU PolicyWatch database, cove…

From crisis corporatism to reshaping European labour markets in defence of vulnerable workers Open

Minna van Gerven, Anıl Duman, Rense Nieuwenhuis · 2025

The families in households typology: searching for families in social surveys Open

Alžběta Bártová, Max Thaning, Wim Van Lancker, Rense Nieuwenhuis · 2025

sponsorship: This work was supported by HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council [Grant Number 101060410]; Innovate UK. (HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council|101060410, Innovate UK)

The need and capacity for resilience in European labour markets: An inequalities in resilience framework Open

Rense Nieuwenhuis, Max Thaning, Alžběta Bártová, Lovisa Backman · 2025

Resilience has become a prominent concept in EU social and economic policy, positioned as a response to megatrends such as technological change, labour market deregulation and demographic shifts. This article critically examines how resili…

The need and capacity for resilience in European labour markets: An inequalities in resilience framework Open

Rense Nieuwenhuis, Max Thaning, Alžběta Bártová, Lovisa Backman · 2025

Resilience has become a prominent concept in EU social and economic policy, positioned as a response to megatrends such as technological change, labour market deregulation and demographic shifts. This article critically examines how resili…

Family and social resilience: A scoping review of the empirical literature Open

Abrar Bawati, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Merve Uzunalioğlu, Max Thaning · 2025

BACKGROUND: The concept of resilience in familial and social contexts has gained prominence in academic and policy discussions. However, the interplay between family life and social inequalities, and how these relate to each other in the r…

Road Testing Child Benefit and Social Assistance Reforms: Critically analysing the trilemma between poverty reduction, public expenditure and work incentives Open

Toon Van Havere, Max Thaning, Wim Van Lancker, Rense Nieuwenhuis · 2025

In this working paper, we critically analyse the trilemma between poverty reduction, social expenditure and work incentives, based on a set of simulated policy reforms designed to reduce poverty among families with children. We find that t…

Family and Social Resilience: a scoping review of the empirical literature Open

Abrar Bawati, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Merve Uzunalioğlu, Max Thaning · 2024

Background: The concept of resilience in familial and social contexts has gained prominence in academic and policy discussions. However, the interplay between family life and social inequalities, and how these relate to each other in the r…

Eligibility and benefit adequacy for families in the tax-benefit system: Micro-simulations using EUROMOD Open

Toon Van Havere, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Max Thaning, Wim Van Lancker, Alžběta Bártová · 2024

In this deliverable, we critically analyse the tax-benefit systems of Belgium, Croatia, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, for their capacity to function as an automatic stabiliser and protect the income and reduce the risk of p…

Compendium of risks, resources and resilience: Interactive data visualisation Open

Rense Nieuwenhuis, Max Thaning, Alžběta Bártová, Wim Van Lancker · 2024

The concept of resilience is increasingly prominent in the policy discourse of the EU and its member states. It’s conceptualisation and monitoring, however, remain under-developed (Bartova et al., 2023; Nieuwenhuis et al., 2023) – in parti…

Exploring Resilience with Families: National Report for Sweden Open

Mary C. Daly, Lovisa Backman, Rense Nieuwenhuis · 2023

This report presents the analysis of the primary research conducted in Sweden for Work Package 4 (WP4) of the rEUsilience project. The report’s underpinning evidence was obtained through seven focus groups conducted with 38 members of fami…

Inequalities in Resilience: Research report on the capacity of policies to attenuate the link between risks and poor outcomes Open

Rense Nieuwenhuis, Max Thaning, Wim Van Lancker, Alžběta Bártová, Lovisa Backman · 2023

We examine whether and how social policy can be effective in supporting family resilience. The concept of resilience is increasingly used in European policy making. We formulated the first version of the inequalities in (family) resilience…

Family Profiles: Risks, resources and inequalities Open

Alžběta Bártová, Max Thaning, Wim Van Lancker, Lovisa Backman, Rense Nieuwenhuis · 2023

The rEUsilience project is concerned with labour market changes and how these changes affect the abilityof families to balance income security and care. We consider families as agents who respond to thesechallenges to cushion potentially n…

The political determinants of housing benefits Open

Kenneth Nelson, Ida Borg, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Susanne Alm · 2022

Housing benefits differ substantially across countries. In this paper, we apply power resource theory, developed primarily in relation to the emergence and subsequent expansion of social citizenship, to housing policy. The purpose is to an…

Housing conditions of single mothers in Europe: the role of housing policies Open

Rense Nieuwenhuis, Hannah Zagel · 2022

This study investigates housing conditions of single mothers in the context of housing policies. We study single mothers' probability to experience housing deprivation, overcrowded housing, overburdening costs of housing, and neighbourhood…

Where to from here? Social policy research in future European societies Open

Mara A. Yerkes, Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis · 2022

In this concluding chapter, we reflect on future research about social policy in Europe. We note three key developments in research about social policy before outlining where how future research should be directed. We note the need for res…

Researching social Europe on the move Open

Desmond Dinan, Ilaria Madama, Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Mara A. Yerkes · 2022

Developments occurring at the supranational level have prompted a lively scholarly debate about the nature and impact of "social Europe". This research trajectory includes the shift from early research focused extensively on formal social …

Social policy research in changing European societies Open

Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Mara A. Yerkes · 2022

The prominent role of social policy in European countries is clearly visible in European societies today. Against this backdrop, this introductory chapter discusses the rationale for the book, outlining the emergence of the European Social…

Social policy research in times of crisis Open

Bent Greve, Thomas Paster, Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis, Mara A. Yerkes · 2022

This chapter discusses how research on welfare state crisis has evolved, influenced by empirical developments as well as theoretical innovations. The chapter identifies four research themes: new social risks, populism and welfare chauvinis…

Social Policy in Changing European Societies Open

Karen Nielsen Breidahl, Troels Fage Hedegaard, Verena Seibel, Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis , et al. · 2022

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach this book provides a cutting-edge, in-depth account of s…

Single Parents Competing in a Dual-Earner Society: Social Policy to Level the Playing Field Open

Rense Nieuwenhuis · 2022

I examine the relative poverty risk among single-parent households in countries that have a large share of households with dual earners. Data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database are used to analyze eighteen OECD countries in th…

Diverging Trends in Single-Mother Poverty across Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom: Toward a Comprehensive Explanatory Framework Open

Hannah Zagel, Sabine Hübgen, Rense Nieuwenhuis · 2021

To explain single-mother poverty, existing research has either emphasized individualistic, or contextual explanations. Building on the prevalences and penalties framework (Brady et al. 2017), we advance the literature on single-mother pove…

Poverty and the family in Europe Open

Jonathan Bradshaw, Rense Nieuwenhuis · 2021

This chapter analyses poverty and the family in a European context. It defines commonly used measures of poverty, and introduces behavioural, structural, and political explanations for poverty. Although several family-related factors, such…

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