Focusing on Generation Y women
Particularly mothers from diverse social backgrounds, NURA explores how women understand and respond to pension norms. By examining institutional structures, cultural expectations, and life-course decisions, the study sheds light on how welfare systems shape women's financial futures.
About The Project
Research Background
Despite increased labor-market participation of women and significant pension system reforms, gender inequalities in pensions persist worldwide. The NURa project examines why pension systems continue to produce these inequalities, even in societies where women's workforce participation has grown substantially.
Our research is built on the understanding that to comprehend future gender pension gaps, we must examine what we call the "triangle of future pensions" composed of three interlinked dimensions:
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The life-course norms embedded in current pension systems
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People's understanding of these norms
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The translation of this understanding into concrete choices regarding pension-relevant factors
Research Methods
The NURa project employs a mixed-methods approach:
Institutional analysis
To comprehend the current life-course norms of pension systems and expected challenges for mothers, applying the SCQUal method
Quantitative analysis
to identify, for Generation Y, the life-course related starting point of gendered pensions, the kind and degree of the genderedness, and the differences between women of different backgrounds and family statuses
Institutional analysis
To comprehend the current life-course norms of pension systeTo determine how, why, and to what extent women understand and respond to old-age risks differently than expectedms and expected challenges for mothers, applying the SCQUal method
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