Papers

Can we identify intergenerational policy regimes in Europe?

This is the deliverable based on the paper written by Chiara Saraceno and Wolfgang Keck (see below).

Can we identify intergenerational policy regimes in Europe?

This paper written by Chiara Saraceno and Wolfgang Keck has been published in European Societies (click the link for direct access to the abstract).

Full reference:
Saraceno, C., & Keck, W., (2010) Can we identify intergenerational policy regimes in Europe? European Societies, 12(5), pp. 675-696.

Childcare needs and childcare policies: A multidimensional issue

This paper written by Chiara Saraceno was published in Current Sociology (click the link for direct access to the abstract).

Full reference:
Saraceno C. (2011). Childcare needs and childcare policies: a multidimensional issue. Current sociology, 59(1), pp. 78-96

Database on Intergenerational Policy Indicators: Methodological Report

This technical report on the Multilinks Database on Intergenerational Policy Indicators provides a discussion of the indicators available and how they were constructed. It also shows how the actual database can be used. The database is only accessible to Multilinks members until further notice.

The institutional framework of intergenerational family obligations in Europe:The institutional framework of intergenerational family obligations in Europe: A conceptual and methodological overview

This (first) deliverable resulting from workpackage 1 has been sent to the EC. Please see the paper, written by Chiara Saraceno, Wolfgang Keck, for further details.

Living arrangements, intergenerational support types and older adult loneliness in Eastern and Western Europe

The aim of this deliverable was to investigate older adult loneliness as linked with living arrangements and intergenerational support, using data of the Generations and Gender Surveys for East and West European countries. Written by Jenny Gierveld, Pearl Dykstra and Niels Schenk.

Second Multilinks deliverable in workpackage 2

The second deliverable for workpackage 2: The intermediate effect of geographic proximity on intergenerational support. A comparison of France and Bulgaria. Written by Leen Heylen, Dimitri Mortelmans, Kim Boudiny and Maarten Hermans.

Explaining parent-child proximity in Eastern and Western Europe: a micro and macro perspective

The first deliverable for workpackage 2: Explaining parent-child proximity in Eastern and Western Europe: a micro and macro perspective, written by Leen Heylen and Dimitri Mortelmans.

Consequences of intergenerational family solidarity for mental health: Family ties as buffers or stressors?

This is the third Multilinks deliverable within workpackage 3. Nienke Moor and Aafke Komter examine how ties with parents, siblings, a partner and children affect people’s mental well-being. Because the authors aim to study the possible consequences of demographic changes for depressive mood, they explicitly focus on the number of family ties people have, rather than on their quality.

The impact of demographic changes on intergenerational solidarity in families

This article is the second deliverable within workpackage 3. It examines how demographic characteristics relating to fertility, mortality, divorce, and stepfamily formation affect emotional support between parents and children in Europe. Nienke Moor and Aafke Komter studied emotional support up and down family lineages.

Multilinks position paper: Demographic changes, intergenerational solidarity and well-being in Europe: a comparative approach

In this first working paper for workpackage 3 Nienke Moor and Aafke Komter give an overview of the demographic trends that occurred in Europe over the last decades, and describe some of the main aspects on which European populations differ.

Relationships between parents and their adult children: a West European typology of late-life families.

Relationships between parents and their adult children: a West European typology of late-life families. Using multiple dimensions of intergenerational solidarity drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, Pearl Dykstra and Tineke Fokkema develop a typology of late-life families which is robust across northern, central and southern regions.

Deliverable 3.1: Family Constellations in Europe

This deliverable uses UN data to provide an overview of how demographic development have changed family constellations over the years. GGS data is used to provide an overview of the current state of family constellations in various European countries.

Views on life course markers and life phases of men and women: some finding from the European Social Survey PHASES OF MEN AND WOMEN: SOME FINDINGS FROM THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY

In this deliverable Gunhild Hagestad discusses results from the Lifetiming module in the ESS round 3 questionnaire.

Intergenerational family responsibility and solidarity in Europe

The aim of work package 4 is to study variations in support for family obligations within and across countries, to examine the relationship between attitudes towards family responsibility and actual provision of support, and to explore the impact of family and health changes on attitudes and support patterns. In this deliverable Katharina Herlofson, Gunhild Hagestad, Britt Slagsvold and Anne-Mette Sørensen review a number of analyses which have been carried out within the framework of work package 4.

Deliverable 4.2: Demographic Change and Family Obligations

Using Dutch GGS data, this deliverable synthesizes some key findings from research in Workpackage 4. The aim of that workpackage is to gain insight in differential feelings of family obligations.

Working Paper 2

The second working paper for WP4 is a report on divorce and intergenerational family obligations using the Dutch GGS, written by Belinda Wijckmans and Jan van Bavel.

Ties between Parents and their Adult Children: A Western European Typology of Late-Life Families

Using multiple dimensions of intergenerational solidarity drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, Pearl Dykstra and Tineke Fokkema develop a typology of late-life families which is robust across northern, central and southern regions.

Report on the comparative study on intergenerational transfers and women’s labour force participation

The second deliverable for workpackage 5, on the comparative study on intergenerational transfers and women’s labour force participation. The report was written by Arnstein Aassve, Bruno Arpino and Alice Goisis.

Short report on methodology for analysing intergenerational relationships in a comparative perspective

A short report on methodology for analysing intergenerational relationships in a comparative perspective, deliverable 5.1 can be downloaded from our website. This deliverable was written by Arnstein Aassve, Bruno Arpino and Nicolas Robette.

Overview of MULTILINKS publications (updated July 3 2012)

This document contains an overview of all published publications stemming from the MULTILINKS project.

Overview of MULTILINKS symposium at GSA

Symposium on MULTILINKS at the 64th annual scientific meeting of the Gerontological Society of America in Boston.

Intergenerational family relationships in ageing societies

This report is written by Pearl Dykstra for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

Key findings from the MULTILINKS research programme

This report by Pearl Dykstra describes key findings from MULTILINKS. The key findings are examples of research where MULTILINKS has brought new and unique insights, and these pertain to macro and micro views of family constellations, East-West differences in family patterns, generational interdependencies, attitudes versus behaviour in families, and intergenerational policies versus regimes.

Report of final progress meeting in Rotterdam

Report of final policy conference in Rotterdam

The Multilinks data base on the institutional framework of intergenerational family obligations in Europe. Conceptual framework, indicators and first analyses.

his deliverable contains the final report concerning the Multilinks database developed at WZB. Written by Chiara Saraceno and Wolfgang Keck.

Report on methodology issues in the Multilinks project

Written by Arnstein Aassve, this report gives an overview of the technical aspects of the analyses implemented in the project. The report focuses on those papers that raise methodological issues from a statistical point of view.

5th MULTILINKS policy brief

Since the 1970s family formation patterns have been changing as the result of the emergence of unmarried cohabitation, the rise in divorce, the postponement of childbearing, and so forth. In this policy brief, Arnstein Aassve and Nicolas Robette try to understand the extent to which traditional family formation patterns persist and new ones are emerging.

Presentations of final progress meeting

All presentations held at the final Multilinks progress meeting in Rotterdam are combined into this zip archive.

Presentations Rotterdam Policy Conference

This zip archive contains the presentations of the Multilinks policy conference held on February 10 2011 in Rotterdam.

Presentations of Oslo progress meeting

All available presentations of the Multilinks progress meeting are archived into one zip file. Presentation of the Multilinks policy advisory board members are available on request.

4th MULTILINKS Policy Brief

In this fourth Multilinks Policy Brief, we illustrate the advantages of the GGS by focusing on diversity in partnerships, childlessness among women and men, and the generational structure of kin networks. This policy brief was written by Allan Puur, Luule Sakkeus, Niels Schenk, Asta Põldma and Pearl Dykstra.

Report of the Milano Multilinks meeting

The report briefly summarizes the fourth progress meeting held in Milano on March 25-26.

3rd MULTILINKS Policy Brief

In this third Policy Brief, the assumptions on how welfare state arrangements might shape intergenerational family solidarity are summarized. Results of explicit tests of these assumptions are presented. The findings call for a more holistic and more differentiated perspective on the role of European welfare states in intergenerational transfers in families. This policy brief was written by Niels Schenk and Pearl Dykstra.

2nd MULTILINKS Policy Brief

In this second Policy Brief, opinions of Europeans on the timing of retirement are presented and evaluated in the light of European-wide targets set in Stockholm and Barcelona to increase labour force participation of older adults. This focus on the opinions of Europeans on retirement supplements the largely economic perspective usually taken with regard to discussing retirement issues. This policy brief was written by Aat Liefbroer.

1st MULTILINKS Policy Brief

In this first Multilinks policy brief, the legal and policy frameworks regulating intergenerational obligations are selected and assembled for all EU 27 countries to offer a contextual basis for the comparative analysis of patterns of intergenerational relationships. This policy brief was written by Chiara Saraceno, Wolfgang Keck and Pearl Dykstra.

Report of the Multilinks third progress meeting

This report summarizes the third Multilinks progress meeting held in Tallinn in October 2009.

Deliverables 7.3 , 8.2 & 8.3

Report of the first Multilinks policy conference (deliverable D7.3), the second progress meeting (deliverable D8.2), and the second meeting with the Scientific Advisory Board (deliverable D8.3).

Deliverables 8.2 and 8.4

Report of the Multilinks first progress meeting and of the first meeting with the Multilinks Policy Advisory Board.

Deliverables 8.1 and 8.3

Report of Multilinks kick-off meeting and of the first meeting with the Multilinks Scientific Advisory Board.

Presentations Brussels

This zip file contains all the presentations held at the Multilinks meeting in Brussels.

Multilinks Powerpoint Template

This is the default Multilinks powerpoint template.