https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:15:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/the-informal-welfare-state-and-the-family-invisible-actors-in-the-greek-drama/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:27 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-informal-welfare-state-and-the-family-invisible-actors-in-the-greek-drama/ Continued]]> Are European welfare states, especially in the European periphery, ‘fair-weather systems’? Can they survive a sustained and deep crisis and still fulfil basic functions? This article argues that to answer these questions we must look at the interplay between ‘formal’ and ‘informal’, family-based, social protection. Social protection services in all countries, but especially in Southern Europe, have always been provided by a hybrid system comprised of state-based and residual family-based systems, where gender plays a critical role. Austerity tests the capacity of formalwelfare provision, and so eats into the liquidity of the informal support system. The crisis is thus transmitted from the state to the family. By examining the case of Greece, the article underlines the need for a joint analysis of both parts of the welfare state in the context of the unfolding crisis. A full understanding of crisis dynamics requires innovation in theoretical approaches, in the type of data needed and in policy thinking.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/crisis-and-womens-economic-independence-some-warnings-from-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:20 +0000 http://arc.local/items/crisis-and-womens-economic-independence-some-warnings-from-greece/ Continued]]> This paper examines the effects of the financial crisis and the economic downturn on women. Its starting premise is that economic phenomena are always gendered in their nature as well as in their consequences; that they impact on specific (both visible and invisible) aspects in the lives of women and men, and that in order to evaluate their effects meaningfully, one needs to move beyond the obvious labour market effects and delve deeper into the spheres of the family, the disposable income for consumption, the use of services as well as the provision of care. The focus in the analysis is on Greece, while the main question addressed is whether women are facing greater economic adversity during the crisis due to their increased vulnerability in the labour market and social protection systems.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/the-crisis-as-handmaiden-of-social-change-adjusting-to-the-21st-century-or-settling-old-scores/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:14 +0000 http://arc.local/items/the-crisis-as-handmaiden-of-social-change-adjusting-to-the-21st-century-or-settling-old-scores/ https://toarcheio.org/items/multidimensional-poverty-in-greece-a-deep-persistent-grey/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:08 +0000 http://arc.local/items/multidimensional-poverty-in-greece-a-deep-persistent-grey/ Continued]]> This study fleshes out the picture of poverty and the poor in Greece, presenting findings with important implications for the Greek social inclusion strategy. Assessing poverty using both monetary and non-monetary dimensions of well-being it becomes evident that, for certain population groups, poverty risk is associated with deprivation risk (multidimensional nature of poverty). Focusing on the age dimension, the stochastic dominance analysis indicates that old age income poverty in Greece appears to be remarkably robust and is not simply due to the choice of poverty lines. Moreover, what is at work statistically is that old age income has an effective ‘floor’ which is constraining inequality among the poor. Such a floor is not evident in the case of the younger group whose distribution of income below the poverty line is much more dispersed. These findings support the argument that much of the effect of the old age poverty alleviation policies over the ten last years in Greece is concentrated on the formation of ‘an effective floor’ for the elderly population rather than on decreasing poverty rates.

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