“…Sharing Standing's (2014a) concerns on the static nature of welfare-regime analysis, I propose to look instead at the welfare mixes, defined as the individual availability of family, state and labourmarket sources (Powell and Barrientos, 2005). The first comparative studies on precarity confirm that due to the variations in the general levels of welfare and standards of living, being in precarious work across countries results in different types of precarity (Melin and Blom, 2015). The analysis has to clarify the availability of different 'welfare mixes' to young peoplenamely how they combine the welfare sources in the labour market with those from the state and the family (Antonucci et al, 2014) 2 .…”