The aim of this article is to articulate the concepts of familialism and defamilialization as well as their indicators to assess whether and how welfare states, or regimes, differ not only in the degree to which they are defamilialized but also in the specific familialism form. In other words,...

This report explores the importance of family support, social contacts and overall work-life balance for individual quality of life. The findings are based on the Foundation's First European Quality of Life Survey which was carried out across 28 countries: the EU25, two acceding countries -...

The author argues that the persistent and growing inequality in income distribution and relative social immobility of households in Italy depend not only on the specific, dualistic, features of its economy but on its social (particularly family) and welfare arrangements: in terms of the...