rEUsilience https://reusilience.eu/ Risks, Resources and Inequalities: Increasing Resilience in European Families Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:16:03 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://reusilience.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-rEUsilience-tab-150x150.png rEUsilience https://reusilience.eu/ 32 32 New roadmap for boosting the rights and resilience of European families https://reusilience.eu/project-updates/new-roadmap-for-boosting-the-rights-and-resilience-of-european-families?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-roadmap-for-boosting-the-rights-and-resilience-of-european-families Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:15:58 +0000 https://reusilience.eu/?p=1887 As our three years exploring family resilience comes to an end, we present concrete proposals for how our insights can be implemented at the EU level to help real families in real life. The roadmap is a product of our research and work with our Policy Lab made up of key individuals from European family […]

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]]> New working paper “Exposure to a job loss, care obligations and participation in training” https://reusilience.eu/project-updates/new-working-paper-exposure-to-a-job-loss-care-obligations-and-participation-in-training?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-working-paper-exposure-to-a-job-loss-care-obligations-and-participation-in-training Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:19:33 +0000 https://reusilience.eu/?p=1873 This next working paper examines the intersection of technological change, gender, and care responsibilities in shaping access to job-related training across advanced economies. Prior to the rise of generative AI, automation primarily affected routine-intensive occupations, driving employment polarisation and disproportionately exposing certain groups, particularly women, to displacement risks. While training can mitigate these risks by […]

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]]> New Working Paper “Context specificity of childcare out-of-pocket costs and child-contingent benefits” https://reusilience.eu/project-updates/new-working-paper-context-specificity-of-childcare-out-of-pocket-costs-and-child-contingent-benefits?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-working-paper-context-specificity-of-childcare-out-of-pocket-costs-and-child-contingent-benefits Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:04:07 +0000 https://reusilience.eu/?p=1847 Our latest working paper sets out to analyse the extent to which child related benefits offset the costs families make out of pocket for childcare, two policy areas that feature prominently in rEUsilience recommendations. Our first area of interest was to what extent child-contingent benefits compensate for the out-of-pocket costs of formal childcare services at […]

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]]> rEUsilience’s Final Conference Resources https://reusilience.eu/project-updates/reusiliences-final-conference-resources?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reusiliences-final-conference-resources Thu, 07 Aug 2025 10:16:39 +0000 https://reusilience.eu/?p=1698 On the 27th June 2025, our final conference for the rEUsilience project ‘The State of Family Resilience in Europe today: new evidence to support policy reform’, took place in Brussels. Attended by more than 90 participants from several countries and various backgrounds including as academics, civil society organisations on national, regional and EU-level, grassroots family […]

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]]> Final Conference: The State of Family Resilience in Europe today: new evidence to support policy reform https://reusilience.eu/project-updates/final-conference-the-state-of-family-resilience-in-europe-today-new-evidence-to-support-policy-reform?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=final-conference-the-state-of-family-resilience-in-europe-today-new-evidence-to-support-policy-reform Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:03:45 +0000 https://reusilience.eu/?p=1709 On 27th June 2025, the rEUsilience project concluded its three-year research project with a vibrant high-level final conference in Brussels. The event brought together over 90 participants, including EU policymakers, ministries of different countries, civil society organisations from European, international, national and regional level, grassroots family organisations, and researchers. The conference, titled “The State of […]

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]]> New Published Book: Families, Welfare States, and Resilience – Low-Resource Families Navigating Care, Employment and Welfare in Europe https://reusilience.eu/project-updates/new-published-book-families-welfare-states-and-resilience-low-resource-families-navigating-care-employment-and-welfare-in-europe?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-published-book-families-welfare-states-and-resilience-low-resource-families-navigating-care-employment-and-welfare-in-europe Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:02:37 +0000 https://reusilience.eu/?p=1774 We are pleased to announce that Edward Elgar Publishing has published the book “Families, Welfare States, and Resilience – Low-Resource Families Navigating Care, Employment and Welfare in Europe”, edited by Project Joint Coordinator Mary Daly (University of Oxford). This book critically reviews and develops the concept of resilience in relation to family life and has […]

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]]> New Working Paper “Family Dynamics and Labour Market Risks Questionnaire” https://reusilience.eu/project-updates/new-working-paper-family-dynamics-and-labour-market-risks-questionnaire?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-working-paper-family-dynamics-and-labour-market-risks-questionnaire Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:03:07 +0000 https://reusilience.eu/?p=1681 We are pleased to share our new working paper which introduces a novel questionnaire designed to improve the measurement of how family dynamics intersect with labour market risks, and how families’ responses are affected by care obligations for family members both in and outside of their home. The paper presents the rationale for and the […]

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]]> New Working Paper “Implications of an incomplete gender revolution for low-resourced single mothers in Sweden” https://reusilience.eu/project-updates/new-working-paper-implications-of-an-incomplete-gender-revolution-for-low-resourced-single-mothers-in-sweden?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-working-paper-implications-of-an-incomplete-gender-revolution-for-low-resourced-single-mothers-in-sweden Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:16:12 +0000 https://reusilience.eu/?p=1668 We are glad to share our new working paper which examines the overlooked consequences of Sweden’s gender-equality-driven family policies for low-resourced single mothers. Although the ability to combine paid work and family life in a gender-equal way has been a longstanding policy aim in Sweden, these policies are predominantly built around the ideal of two-parent […]

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]]> New Working Paper “the need and capacity for resilience in European labour markets. An inequalities in resilience framework” https://reusilience.eu/project-updates/new-working-paper-the-need-and-capacity-for-resilience-in-european-labour-markets-an-inequalities-in-resilience-framework?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-working-paper-the-need-and-capacity-for-resilience-in-european-labour-markets-an-inequalities-in-resilience-framework Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:22:00 +0000 https://reusilience.eu/?p=1645 We are pleased to share our new working paper, which develops an ‘inequalities in resilience’ framework to better understand how individuals respond to labour market risks in Europe, and how inequalities in resilience are shaped by structural factors such as education and family type. The paper, titled ‘The Need and Capacity for Resilience in European […]

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]]> rEUsilience’s Belgian Stakeholders’ event focuses on care across various types of families in Belgium and how effective policy reforms can make a difference https://reusilience.eu/project-updates/reusiliences-belgian-stakeholders-event-focuses-on-care-across-various-types-of-families-in-belgium-and-how-effective-policy-reforms-can-make-a-difference?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reusiliences-belgian-stakeholders-event-focuses-on-care-across-various-types-of-families-in-belgium-and-how-effective-policy-reforms-can-make-a-difference Thu, 19 Jun 2025 09:09:37 +0000 https://reusilience.eu/?p=1614 On the 26th of May 2025, rEUsilience researcher Wim Van Lancker moderated a rEUsilience Workshop: ‘Critical dialogue regarding Belgian and Flemish family policy’ which brought together a diverse group of stakeholders including researchers, civil society organisations, government representatives and social service providers. The workshop centred on the core rEUsilience question: ‘How do families cope with […]

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