Programm

Friday, 20th April 2007

1. Opening of the Workshop (Fr, 9:00 - 9:30)

Welcome Opening

Hill Kulu (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

Living arrangements and Strong family

Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna (University of Padova) and Laura Bernardi (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

2. Session I: "Family and the Welfare State" (Fr, 9:30 - 11:00)

Socioeconomic Characteristics of Single-Parent Families and Their Impacts on Children’s Education in Korea

Hyunjoon Park (University of Pennsylvania)

Family system and welfare state in Italy and Japan. A comparative perspective

Margherita Perra (University of Cagliari)

3. Session II: "Young Adults" (Fr, 11:30 - 13:30)

Income support programs and living arrangements in Europe

Maria Concetta Chiuri (University of Bari and CHILD) and Daniela Del Boca (University of Turin)

Living Arrangements of Young Adults in Japan - Trends, Determinants, and Consequences Setsuya Fukuda (Meiji University)

Changes in economic self-sufficiency, family income and living arrangements among youth in Spain, 1980-2000

Sara Ayllon (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

4. Session III: "Intergenerational Relationships" (Fr, 14:30 - 16:00)

Grandparents as surrogate parents: The Resurgence of the role of Grandparents in the era of Overseas Filipino migration

Elma P. Laguna (University of the Philippines)

The private dimension of the generational contract. Explaining North-South Europe differences in the likelihood of inter-vivos financial transfers from parents to children

Martin Kohli and Marco Albertini (European Institute)

5. Session IV: "Family Systems and Origanizations between old and new" (Fr, 14:30 - 16:00)

Not truly partner less: Non-residential partnerships and retreat from marriage in Spain

Teresa Martin Castro, Marta Domínguez Folgueras, and Teresa Martín García (Spanish Council for Scientific Research)

Does family system in Romania follow the path of Southern European countries?

Christina Oanes, Mihaela Hărăguş (Babes-Bolyai University), and Maria Castiglioni, (University of Padua)

Changing Families and Living Arrangements In Turkey

Sutay Yavuz (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

Saturday, 21st April 2007

6. Session V: "Living Arrangements and older Age" (Sa, 8:30 - 10:30)

Proximity between Adult Children and Their Mothers: a European Comparison

Francesca Michielin (University of Amsterdam)

The future of the elderly care in Spain and Taiwan - The cultural background

Jose E. Borao (National Taiwan University)

An Empirical Analysis of Desired Living Arrangements and Their Determinants for the Elderly among Chinese Metropolitan Areas —Cases of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing

Jiehua Lu and Mingwen Bai (Peking University)

7. Session VI: "Gender Division of Housework and Fertility" (Sa, 11:00 - 12:30)

Living arrangements, gender division of housework, and the fertility intentions of married women: A Japan-Italy comparison

Letizia Mencarini, (University of Florence), James M. Raymo (University of Wisconsin), and Maria Letizia Tanturri (University of Pavia)

La ripartizione del lavoro domestico. Uno studio qualitativo tra Milano e Messina

Giuseppe Micheli (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca), Ester Rizzi, and Giuseppe Avena, Università degli Studi di Messina)

8. Session VII: "Closing of the Workshop" (Sa, 12:30 - 13:00)

Critical summary and future perspectives

Laura Bernardi (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) and Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna (University of Padua)