Welfare boundaries
IP205 (former IP5)
Project leader: Jean-Michel Bonvin
The objective of social policies is to address the issue of vulnerability defined as a lack of resources. However, previous research during the first phase of the NCCR LIVES has shown that social policies are deeply ambivalent: being in welfare certainly provides access to resources and programmes, but these are subject to conditions and constraints that are themselves sources of stress. The originality of the research we conduct in IP205 is to examine these dynamics in parallel. It will enable us to understand which previous trajectories lead to the acceptance of welfare or to non-take-up and what the implications of these two statuses are on vulnerability in a life-course perspective.
During Phase 1 (2011-2014), this project was entitled "Overcoming vulnerability to unemployment: Possibilities and limits of the so-called "active" social policies" (IP5)
Team:
Prof. Felix Bühlmann, Prof. Fabrizio Butera, Prof. Jörg Dittmann, Prof. Carlo Knoepfel, Prof. Daniel Stoecklin, Prof. Jean‐Pierre Tabin
Dr. Emilie Rosenstein
Doctoral students:
Yann Bochsler, Laura Cristina Amaro Galhano, Francesco Laruffa, Frédérique Leresche
Reseach assistant:
Karine Clerc
News published on IP205
- Activate the most vulnerable? The case of the Disability Insurance reveals many paradoxes
- Social investment in Switzerland: too light for some, an economicist orthodoxy for others
- Poverty Eradication and Participation: Between Claims and Realities
- "Children’s Rights and the Capability Approach: Challenges and Prospects"
- Researchers and practitioners in the integration of marginalised youth test a new form of dialogue
- Amartya Sen receives a doctorate honoris causa in the presence of a LIVES project leader
- The evaluation of a Swiss program for professional integration presented in France
- 2-day retreat on "Life Course and Social Policy"
Publications
Selected publications


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