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Spring 2025

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Global Welfare Regime Project

Yu-Ling Chang, Professor  
Institute for Research on Labor and Employment  

Closed. This professor is continuing with Fall 2024 apprentices on this project; no new apprentices needed for Spring 2025.

This project aims to investigate the features of global welfare regimes with a focus on social protection systems. Dr. Yu-Ling Chang is collaborating with Dr. Julia Shu-Huah Wang at the National Taiwan University and social policy scholars from 20+ countries on this project. We use the model family approach to examine the family benefit packages for different types of families across countries. Currently, we're engaged in data collection for Los Angeles County, California – as a representative county of the United States in the project.

Role: 1.Data Collection and Management: Assist in collecting quantitative and qualitative data related to different income support programs for low-income families

2. Literature Review: Conduct a review of existing literature to inform our research and identify gaps.



Qualifications: 1. Current undergraduate student at UC Berkeley with a strong interest in poverty, social policy, and global welfare systems.
2. Proficiency in data collection, organization, and basic analysis.
3. Good communication skills for collaboration with a diverse team.
Familiarity with literature review and summarization.

Day-to-day supervisor for this project: Christopher Taylor Brown, Graduate Student

Hours: 3-5 hrs

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