Tackling Inequalities in Time of Austerity (TITA) Research consortium project for Strategic Research Council s Equality in Society programme Tackling Inequalities in Time of Austerity
Tausta Suomen Akatemian huhtikuun haku 7.-29.4.2015 Strategisen tutkimuksen neuvoston (STN) kolme ohjelmaa Teknologiamurrokset ja muuttuvat instituutiot Ilmastoneutraali ja resurssiniukka Suomi Tasa-arvoinen yhteiskunta
Ohjelmakysymykset A. Mitkä ovat eriarvoisuutta tuottavat mekanismit nyky-suomessa? B. Miten tasa-arvoa voidaan edistää peruspalveluiden ja etuusjärjestelmien uudistamisen yhteydessä? C. Millä tavalla julkiset toimenpiteet parhaiten tukevat innovatiivista kokeilutoimintaa, kokeiluista oppimista ja instituutioiden muutosta siten, että muutos etenee hallitusti ja lopputuloksena on kokonaisuutena onnistunut peruspalveluiden ja etuusjärjestelmien uudistaminen? D. Miten parhaiten huolehditaan siitä, että yksilö-, ryhmä- ja instituutiotasolla on käytettävissä ne kyvykkyydet ja inhimilliset voimavarat, jotka mahdollistavat sopeutumisen peruspalvelu- ja etuusjärjestelmän uudistukseen tasa-arvoisesti?
TITA-hankkeen synty Taustalla EU-rahoitteinen Growing Inequalities Impacts hanke, 2010-2013 The Nature of Inequality and Its Development over Time The Social Impacts of Inequality Political and Cultural Impacts Effectiveness of Policies in Combating Inequality
Viisi työpakettia WP 1 Financial inequalities WP 2 Inequality of opportunities over the life course WP 3 Inequalities in health and well-being WP 4 Moral and political economy of inequality WP 5 Inequality and social policy alternatives
Konsortio-osapuolet PI: Mikko Niemelä, Turun yliopisto Osapuolet Turun yliopisto: sosiologia & taloussosiologia Tukholman yliopisto: sosiologia & Institutet för social forskning Kelan tutkimus Helsingin yliopisto: Social och kommunal högskolan & Kuluttajatutkimuskeskus Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos: sosiaalipolitiikan tutkimus Itä-Suomen yliopisto: sosiologia Diakonia-ammattikorkeakoulu
WP 1 FINANCIAL INEQUALITIES Scientific coordinator: Prof. Markus Jäntti 13 tutkimustiimiä WP 1.1. Trends and drivers of financial inequality analyses long-term trends in and associations between financial inequalities measured by income, wealth and consumption examines the pure effects of the changes in tax-benefit system by making microsimulation evaluations about core reforms effects on income poverty, income inequality and work incentives Partners: TY, HY, Kela (& EUROMOD) Team leader: Prof. Mikko Niemelä WP 1.2. Long-term trends and short-term shocks in housing related inequalities explores the links between urbanisation and long-term changes in housing wealth and housing costs but also focuses on short-term shocks on the local level analyses the significance of housing allowances and housing tenure for households moves into and out of poverty Partners: TY, THL (& University of Iceland) Team leader: Prof. Hannu Ruonavaara
WP 2.2. Families, family policies and social inequalities analyses interdependencies between changes in families and socioeconomic inequalities in life course and identity factors creating barriers for family formation and stability examines how childbearing, and long family leaves in particular, influence the employment trajectories and socioeconomic positions of women and men as well as multiple child outcomes Partners: TY, Kela (& City of Helsinki) Team leaders: Senior Researcher Anita Haataja & Academy Research Fellow Marika Jalovaara WP 2 INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITIES OVER THE LIFE COURSE Scientific coordinator: Prof. Jani Erola WP 2.1. Education, social mobility and the welfare state identifies historical changes in key policies influencing education, income (re)distribution, families and fertility since World War II and compares their effects on intergenerational equality of opportunity studies the effects of period changes in the life course and indentifies their impacts on equality of opportunity estimates the importance of different policies in buffering the turbulence in equality of opportunity caused by economic cycles Partners: SU, TY Team leader: Associate Prof. Juho Härkönen
WP 2.3. Immigrants integration and social policy analyses immigrant poverty, unemployment and social mobility, while taking emigration into account examines the influence of family policies on immigrants integration pathways Partners: Kela, SU Team leader: Senior Researcher Jouko Verho
WP 3 INEQUALITIES IN HEALTH AND WELL-BEING Scientific coordinator: Senior Researcher Jenni Blomgren WP 3.1. Trends in inequalities in health and well-being explores whether the development of financial inequality during the past decades has had effects on the social outcomes of the individual such as material deprivation, cumulative disadvantage, social cohesion, health, crime, subjective well-being, and happiness compares population level subjective well-being with the well-being of clients of food banks analyses unemployment and downward occupational mobility as a risk factor for mortality among middle-age and early old-age Finnish men and women. In addition it will examine regional differences in health and mortality Partners: TY, SU, UEF, DIAK Team leader: Senior Research Fellow Johanna Kallio WP 3.2. Improving validity of poverty measurement for decisionmaking improves the validity of poverty measurement for decision-making by updating and extending the existing reference budgets for a decent minimum standard of living Partners: THL, HY, TY Team leader: Research Prof. Pasi Moisio
WP 3.3. Socio-economic differences in use of work-disability benefits analyses socio-economic differences in the use of work disability benefits How do the routes to disability pension differ among socio-economic groups? Do the screening points in sickness allowance and disability pension systems work equally effectively in different socio-economic groups? Does the benefit system help decrease socio-economic differences in work ability or does it aggravate them? Partners: Kela, TY (& ETK) Team leader: Senior Researcher Jenni Blomgren WP 3.4. Health, inequality and medicine reimbursements examines equality in prescribing and medicine reimbursements studies the effects of the annual co-payment threshold effective January 2016 on different patient groups and in socio-demographic population subgroups analyses physician- and patient-level factors affecting prescribing of medicines and the consequences of economic shocks in terms of the local use of medicines as a cure Partners: Kela (& University of Southern Denmark) Team leader: Head of Medicine Research Jaana Martikainen
WP 4 MORAL AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INEQUALITY Scientific coordinator: Prof. Helena Blomberg WP 4.1. Moral and political economy of inequality in policy process Concentrates on the political economy of in/equality and studies political and public discourse on in/equality Partners: Kela, TY (& University of Southern Denmark, Uppsala university) Team leader: Research Director Olli Kangas WP 4.2. Public attitudes and evaluations of policy reforms studies long-term changes in welfare attitudes in order to examine both the association between popular support for redistribution and economic inequality and the association between welfare attitudes and related policy measures analyses people s evaluations of welfare state performance and the public support of proposed policy reforms Partners: HY, TY, Kela (& Leuven university) Team leader: Prof. Helena Blomberg
WP 5 INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL POLICY ALTERNATIVES Scientific coordinator: Research Prof. Pasi Moisio WP 5.1. Alternatives to social protection: costs, incentives and distributional effects develops politically and economically feasible policy alternatives for basic services and benefit schemes from the governmental programme and evaluates the cost, incentive and distributional effects of these policy alternatives Partners: THL, Kela (& EUROMOD, University of Antwerp) Team leader: Research Prof. Pasi Moisio WP 5.2. Social assistance meets social security evaluates the implementation process of the basic social assistance trensfer from local governments to Kela, and its consequences on equality between clients and on social work in municipalities Partners: Kela, THL, TY, HY, TY, UEF (& University of Southern Denmark, Stockholm university) Team leader: Research Director Olli Kangas
Vuorovaikutuksesta
Kolme strategiaa Tutkimusyhteisö Poliittinen päätöksenteko Yhteiskunnallinen julkinen dialogi
Tutkimusyhteisö International peer-reviewed publications Publications in Finnish Contribution to open science Process prior to publications Cross-generational publications, co-publishing, crossdisciplinary publications Scientific Advisory Board
Poliittinen päätöksenteko Advisory board Interaction with political decision-makers Active participation in ministerial working groups TITA policy briefs
Yhteiskunnallinen julkinen dialogi Press releases (or TITA policy briefs) Cooperation with media (Yle) Social media Competitions directed at teenagers
Ohjausryhmät Ohjausryhmä Outi Antila, STM Matti Apunen, EVA Annika Forsander, TEM Mikael Forss, Kela Tuulia Hakola-Uusitalo, VM Kari Ilmonen, STM Anna Järvinen, SOSTE Susan Kuivalainen, ETK Sinikka Näätsaari, SAK Marja-Liisa Parjanne, STM Antti Parpo, Rauman kaupunki Lauri Pelkonen, STM Riitta Särkelä, Ensi- ja turvakotien liitto Riitta Työläjärvi, STTK Krista Virtanen, Porin kaupunki Tieteellinen ohjausryhmä Kristina Alexandersson, Karolinska Institutet Lynn Prince Cooke, University of Bath Jaap Dronkers, Maastricht University Johan Fritzell, Stockholm University Joakim Palme, Uppsala University Klaus Petersen, University of Southern Denmark Wiemer Salverda, University of Amsterdam Tine Rostgaard, Aalborg University
Esimerkki HE 106/2015 Hallituksen esitys eduskunnalle laeiksi sairausvakuutuslain muuttamisesta ja väliaikaisesta muuttamisesta, sairausvakuutuslain muuttamisesta annetun lain muuttamisesta sekä apteekkimaksusta annetun lain 2 :n väliaikaisesta muuttamisesta Asia käsiteltävänä sosiaali- ja terveysvaliokunnassa torstaina 11.11.2015 TITA Policy Brief lääkekorvausmuutosten vaikutuksista potilaiden omavastuumenoihin ulos samana aamuna Tutkija esittää tulokset aamulla Kelan valtuutetuille sekä tämän jälkeen eduskunnassa valiokunnalle
Esimerkki Policy brief 11.11.2015 Helsingin Sanomat 16.11.2015
Mitä opittiin? On tiedettävä mitä asioita on tulossa agendalle On tiedettävä milloin tietoa tarvitaan Ei koske pelkästään tässä ja nyt tietotarpeita, vaan myös laajempia ja ohjelmallisempia tietotarpeita (strateginen työ jne.) Vuorovaikutuksen keinot moninaisia Päätöksenteossa mukana olevien tiedettävä mitä tutkitaan Tutkijoiden tiedettävä millaisia tietotarpeita on olemassa