Family formation and family dilemmas in contemporary Europe - Softcover

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Pau Baizán Is research professor of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain), where he teaches demography and population studies. He is a correspondent of the European Observatory on demography and the Social Situation and chair of the scientific panel on Policies in the Context of Low Fertility (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population). Previously, he was a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research a (2000 2002), a doctoral student and teaching assistant at the University of Louvain (1996 1999), where he obtained his PhD in demography, and a research associate at the University of Cambridge (1994 1995). His research interests focus on family and household formation, transitions to adulthood, migration and the influence of the welfare state on family dynamics. Stefanie Brodmann Is currently a PhD student in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain). She received her BA in business administration from the University of Cooperative Education in Mannheim (Germany) and her MSc in economics from Pompeu Fabra University. She has been a visiting researcher on the John F. Kennedy School of Government s Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy and at the Danish National Institute of Social Research (SFI). Her main research interests include the sociology and economics of migration, education, income distribution and microeconometrics. Gøsta Esping-Andersen Is currently professor of sociology at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain), and has previously taught at Harvard University, the European University in Florence and the University of Trento. He has also worked extensively with international organizations, including the OECD, World Bank and the EU Presidency. He is a member of the scientific board of the Juan March Institute, the Danish National Institute of Social Research (SFI), the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER)-Bocconi University. He was awarded a doctor honoris causa from Roskilde University in 2002. His research centres on social inequality, social policy and family change. His recent publications include Why We Need a New Welfare State (Oxford 2002) and Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies (Oxford 1999), which has been translated into Italian, Japanese and Spanish. Maia Güell Is an associate professor in the Department of Economics and Business at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain) and research affiliate in the Labour Economics Programme of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). She received her PhD in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences and was visiting lecturer at Princeton University before joining Pompeu Fabra University. Her research interests are in theoretical and empirical labour economics. She has published in European Economic Review, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Labor Economics and Labour Economics. Teresa Jurado-Guerrero Is currently research professor in the National University of Distance Education (UNED, Spain) and a member of the Centre for Comparative Social Structures in Madrid. She studied at Mannheim University (Germany) and Toulouse Le Mirail (France), completed her PhD at the European University Institute (EUI, Italy) and was a researcher within the Ramón y Cajal Programme. Her research interests focus on comparative social research: welfare states and families in South Europe, transitions into adulthood, labour force and housing markets in Spain, and the social integration of immigrants in Europe. Her recent publications include Las nuevas familias en España , in Tres décadas de cambio social en España (Alianza Editorial, 2005) and El creciente dinamismo familiar frente a la inflexibilidad. del modelo de vivienda español (Cuadernos de Información Económica 193). María José González Is a lecturer in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain). She was visiting researcher at the Department of Population Studies of COLEF (Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico), guest scholar at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), visiting researcher at the European Gender Research Laboratory of the London School of Economics and researcher at the Centre for Demographic Studies of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She completed her PhD at the European University Institute (EUI, Italy) in the field of family sociology. Currently, she is involved in different national and international research groups on fertility, family formation and childcare. Her latest work includes Balancing Employment and Family Responsibilities in Southern Europe: Trends and Challenges for Social Policy Reform , in Revue française des affaires sociales 1 (2006). John MacInnes Is reader in sociology at the University of Edinburgh and researcher at the Centre for Demographic Studies (Autonomous University of Barcelona). He does research on the relationship between the labour market, families, and changing gender relations and on the (ab)use of the concept of identity in social science. Tiziana Nazio Is career development fellow in the Department of Sociology at Oxford University and research fellow at Nuffield College (UK). Previously, she was Juan de la Cierva research fellow at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain), Marie Curie research fellow at the Centre for Demographic Studies (Autonomous University of Barcelona) and worked as a researcher in the Globalife and FENICs projects at Bielefeld University (Germany), where she was awarded a PhD in sociology in co-tutelage with the University of Turin (Italy). Her research is of a cross-country comparative nature and has examined processes of social and cultural change through the diffusion of cohabitation across time. She has published a book (Routledge, in press) and articles in relation to family changes and the transition to adulthood. Her interests also include intergenerational relations, patterns of labour force participation and fertility. She is specialised in event history analysis and diffusion models. Sebastián Sarasa Is currently senior lecturer of sociology at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain) and has previously taught at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His main fields of academic interest include research on social policies and the analysis of inequalities and social exclusion in modern welfare states. He has also been president of the Catalan Association of Sociology and vice-president of the Spanish Federation of Associations of Sociology.