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Equalizing or disequalizing? Opposing socio-demographic determinants of the spatial distribution of welfare.

Description du projet

Zoom sur l’éducation en matière de genre et sur la répartition de l’aide sociale

Au cours des dernières décennies, on a assisté à une expansion de l’éducation, ainsi qu’à une inversion de l’écart entre les sexes dans ce domaine. Financé par le Conseil européen de la recherche, le projet EQUALIZE vise à étudier la relation entre les tendances actuelles en matière de formation des familles, de conditions de vie et de niveaux d’éducation spécifiques au genre, d’une part, et la répartition spatiale de l’aide sociale et l’émergence de ménages sans emploi dans les sociétés modernes, d’autre part. Le projet s’appuiera sur diverses enquêtes réalisées auprès des ménages, ainsi que sur le projet Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) et le Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre, les plus grandes sources de microdonnées de recensement au monde. En menant une analyse aux niveaux micro, méso et macro, EQUALIZE vise à établir des liens formels entre la distribution de l’aide sociale et les facteurs sociodémographiques afin de mettre en évidence des informations précieuses.

Objectif

This project aims to investigate the extent to which current trends in family formation, living arrangements and gender-specific education levels are related to the spatial distribution of welfare and the emergence of jobless households in contemporary societies. Inter alia, we aim to explore whether the welfare disequalizing, impoverishing and polarizing effects that are currently associated with recent patterns in assortative mating, lone parenthood and household composition are offset by an unprecedented phenomenon that is sweeping the world during the last decades: the rapid process education expansion in tandem with a reversal of the gender gap in education. The extent to which these two opposing forces occur and which of them is more influential in shaping the distribution of welfare between and within countries is among the main goals of this project. To this end, we will draw upon a variety of household surveys and the world largest sources of census microdata: the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) project and the Latin American and Caribbean Demographic Centre. Because of their unparalleled geographical coverage and detail, these sources of data constitute exceptional instruments to study socio-demographic phenomena that have been vastly underutilized by the international research community. Triangulating our analysis at the micro, meso and macro levels, we will establish formal linkages between welfare distributions and its socio-demographic correlates to unveil insightful relationships that have been unsatisfactorily explored so far because of the lack of appropriately harmonized, sufficiently detailed and georeferenced datasets. We will strongly emphasize the spatial distribution of variables to unravel local patterns that might take place at highly disaggregated levels, therefore not being discernible to traditional (not as finely-grained) approaches.

Régime de financement

ERC-STG - Starting Grant

Institution d’accueil

CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS DEMOGRAFICOS
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 174 500,00
Adresse
CERDANYOLA V GR UNIVERSITAT AUT BARCELONA EDIFICI E
08193 Barcelona
Espagne

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Région
Este Cataluña Barcelona
Type d’activité
Research Organisations
Liens
Coût total
€ 1 174 500,00

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