Intergenerational Linkages in the Family: How Policies Shape the Organisation of Caring and Financial Responsibilities for Family Members

Third Annual FamiliesAndSocieties Stakeholder Seminar

Intergenerational linkages in the family: How policies shape the organisation of caring and financial responsibilities for family members

Tuesday, 26 January 2016 European Economic and Social Committee Trèves Building (Room 7701) 74 Rue de Trèves 1040 Brussels, Belgium

8:30 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 9:15 Welcome and Introduction

Stéphane Buffetaut Member of the European Economic and Social Committee

Pearl Dykstra Professor of Empirical Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Vice President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

9:15 – 9:45 How laws and policies shape gendered interdependencies in families Pearl Dykstra Professor of Empirical Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Vice President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

9:45 – 10:15 Transfers to old parents - A policy response to family and labour market change Irena Kotowska Professor of Economics and Demography and Head of the Centre for Demography, Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics

10:15 – 10:45 Intergenerational relations and welfare provision in a crisis- stricken country: The case of Spain Pau Mari-Klose Professor of Sociology at the University of Zaragoza

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 11:30 Keynote Brando Benifei MEP European Parliament

11:30 – 12:45 Panel Debate Julius op de Beke European Commission, Brussels Andrea Gerosa ThinkYoung, Brussels Pau Mari-Klose University of Zaragoza, Spain Anne-Sophie Parent AGE Platform, Brussels

Moderator: Harald Wilkoszewski, Population Europe Secretariat, Brussels

12:45 – 13:00 Conclusions and Final Remarks Pearl Dykstra Professor of Empirical Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Vice President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

13:00 – 14:00 Reception

Please register here: https://survey.demogr.mpg.de/index.php?r=survey/index/sid/698898/lang/en

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This event receives funding from the European Union´s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 320116 for the research project FamiliesAndSocieties.