The relevance of family for social rights in international comparison: between family allowances and claimed family solidarity

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Patricia Frericks
• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research
• Term: from 2020 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438088800

Family membership has been a central condition for rights over welfare resources. However, it has not been analysed systematically and in international comparison how family membership is institutionalised in welfare states neither has it been included in welfare state typologies. The proposed project will systematically analyse the financial advantages and disadvantages of family membership in different social security systems and the resulting redistributive mechanisms. In addition, it aims to explain international differences. With this, it contributes to empirical, theoretical and methodological issues of comparative welfare state analysis.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants