Family Profiles: Risks, resources and inequalities

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 negative impacts. In the project, we try to understand what are theconditions that support family resilience. The specific questions for the rEUsilience project are:What challenges and difficulties are created or exacerbated for families by labour markets in the‘new world of work’ and how do families try to overcome these?How do social policies contribute to familial resilience especially in terms of the extent to whichthey are inclusive, flexible and complementary?The concept of resilience is increasingly used in EU and national policy making. Yet, empirical foundationfor monitoring social policies and their ability to strengthen family resilience is currently lacking. Thisdeliverable builds a groundwork for development of tools for monitoring family resilience in the contextof social policy. The first step we take is a construction of family profiles and analyse them on thedistribution of risks, resources, and socio-economic outcomes.