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EU-Policies and Fertility: The Emergence of Fertility-Related Family Policies at the Supra-National Level

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posted on 2021-03-12, 15:51 authored by Gerda NeyerGerda Neyer, Arianna Caporali, Nora Sánchez Gassen
The paper deals with fertility relevant policy initiatives at the European level. During the past decade the EU has set several initiatives concerning fertility issues. It is not clear whether these mark the emergence of a new policy field within the EU. To assess this issue we collected EU documents related to fertility relevant policy issues and quantified their development over time. We distinguished between binding and non-binding acts, and we analysed the key topics and frames of the EU documents collected in our dataset. The analysis shows that EU activities related to fertility relevant family policies have increased over time, both with respect to binding and non-binding initiatives. It further shows that the recent fertility-focused initiatives are embedded in policy frames and topics which to a large extent have been part of the core of European Union politics since its onset.

Funding

the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 320116 for the research project FamiliesAndSocieties.

the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) via the Linnaeus Center for Social Policy and Family Dynamics in Europe (SPaDE), grant registration number 349-2007-8701

History

ISSN

2002-617X

Original title

EU-Policies and Fertility: The Emergence of Fertility-Related Family Policies at the Supra-National Level

Original language

  • English

Publication date

2017-03-01

Affiliation (institution of first SU-affiliated author)

  • 310 Sociologiska institutionen | Department of Sociology