Project Leader
Denis Bouget (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange Guépin-Nantes)
Consortium members
P01 - Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Ange Guépin-Nantes
P04 - Institut des Hautes Études en Administration Publique
P05 - London School of Economics and Political Science
P08 - Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration
P11 - Observatoire social européen
P12 - National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health
P13 - Université Catholique de Louvain la Neuve
P18 - Danish Institute for Social Research
P20 - Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy
P21 - Poleis, Bocconi University
P22 - Warsaw School of Economics
P25 - Central European University
P26 - University of Manchester
P27 - Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
P28 - Institute for Future Studies
P30 - University of Southern Denmark
Coordinator
Denis Bouget (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange Guépin-Nantes)
Head of Research (Institute of Sociology, HAS)
Participants (Institute of Sociology, HAS)
Takács, Judit
Messing, Vera
P. Tóth, Tamás
Szalai, Júlia
Vajda, Róza
The research
Project introduction: (pdf 30 kb)
RECWOWE is a Network of Excellence (NoE) of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) on 'Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe'. Website: http://recwowe.eu/
The paramount objective of RECWOWE is to create a European research network capable of overcoming the fragmentation of existing research on questions of work and welfare in Europe. RECWOWE integrates existing research activities on the various tensions that characterize the relationships between work and welfare, The ultimate aim is the constitution of a ‘virtual institute' promoting the research excellence required in identifying and understanding the multiple tensions between work and welfare, as well as strategies for managing or resolving them. RECWOWE is aimed at encouraging innovative research in the fields of labour market and social protection research. The common focus on tensions gives rise to perspectives and questions for research that are currently lost in the ‘void' between existing research domains and academic disciplines. The activity of the network promotes new institutional and individual partnership, based on novel combinations of disciplinary and geographical expertise. The international comparative research investigates the recruitment policies of for-profit companies with regard to disadvantaged groups. The research focuses on the different approaches and perspectives in employment decisions related to disadvantaged groups. The quantitative type of research uses the interview as the major method.
IS-HAS team members participated in the following tasks within Action 02: Reconciling Family and Employment – led by B. Hobson & T. Knijn:
- T02.11/12 Tensions between rising expectations of parenthood and capabilities and agency to achieve a work family balance (including a Pilot Capabilities Survey on WFB conducted in Stockholm and in Budapest) – Sz. Artner, J. Takács, T. P.Tóth, R. Vajda
- T02.13/23 Tensions between work and family life in 6 EU countries– J. Takács
- T02.22 Fertility, female employment and reconciliation policies – J. Takács, O. Tóth.
- IS-HAS team members (V. Messing, K. Tardos) also participated in tasks on Immigrants and ethnic minorities between labour and welfare within WP07, including T01.22 Employers' recruitment decisions.