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| Title: | The Generational contract in the family : explaining regime differences in financial transfers from parents to children in Europe |
| Authors: | Kohli, Martin
Albertini, Marco |
| Other authors: | Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials |
| Subjects: | Estat del benestar
Família - Europa |
| Creation Date: | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | DemoSoc working paper;24 |
| Abstract: | The exchange of social and economic support between the generations
is one of the main pillars of both family life and welfare systems. The
debate on how to reform the generational contract is still truncated,
however, by focusing on its public dimension only, especially on
pensions and health care provisions. For a full account, the transfer of
resources between adult generations in the family needs to be included
as well. In our previous research we have shown that intergenerational
exchange is more likely to take place but less intense in the Nordic
welfare regime than in the Continental and Southern ones. In the
present paper we analyze the social mechanisms that create and explain
this nexus between patterns of intergenerational transfers and welfare
regimes. The notion that Southern European family support networks
are stronger and more effective than those of Continental and Northern
European countries is only partially confirmed. In Southern (and partly
in Continental) countries, children are mostly supported by means of
co-residence with their parents till their complete economic
independence. However, once they have left the parental home there
are fewer transfers; support tends to be restricted to children who have
special needs (such as for the formation of their own family), and
depends more on their parents’ resources. In the Nordic countries, in
contrast, transfers are less driven by children’s needs and parental
resources. |
| Appears in Collections: | DemoSoc Working Papers
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