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Florian Tomini
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Position: ESPP Fellow
e-mail: florian.tomini@governance.unimaas.nl
Educational background
June 2002 MSc in “Social Protection Financing”, Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
The final thesis: “Decentralization, Social Services Delivery Systems and the Transition Countries”
July 1999 BA in “Management and Business Administration”, University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania
Final year project: “The transition and the Industrial Relations: Albania’s Perspective”
Work experience:
Junior Professional Associate, Human Development Sector, The World Bank, Albania Country Office
Assistant Pedagogue, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics, Tirana University, Albania
Research Interest:
Social Risk Management and Household Strategies, Governance and Social Welfare Reforms, Social Protection Financing
Research question of the PhD project:
What different patterns of family solidarity can be distinguished between different family members, and how the needs and means of family members shape these transfers of money and services?
Research Description:
The project aims in exploring the patterns of support exchanged in the context of the family relationships.
The current socio-economic developments (triggered by such phenomena as: population decline and ageing; increased variety of family arrangements; the new gender rapport; changed relationship between family and paid work; and the increased individualization), are often seen as a threat to family solidarity. In fact, formally family solidarity can be defined as doing something for someone else that is a benefit to the other and according to some definitions also a cost to you (Kalmijn, 2005). Defined as such, family solidarity appears to be a very complex relationship.
The full understanding of the patterns of solidarity will help us in better explaining the differences in behavior and decision-making that a family member will adopt under given circumstances. In turn, we can investigate to what extent family ties function as a form of social protection. The distinctive design of The Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (which is a survey designed to get as much information as possible on the family and kinship ties in the Netherlands) allows to empirically test the different hypotheses of family solidarity in the context of intergenerational and intra-generational relationships. |
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