"The impact of competencies and certificates on labor market outcomes in advanced societies"

"Bringing People Back In: Institutions, History and Culture?"

"The politics of migrant integration: recent trends in Europe"

"From women and recession to women and austerity"

"Competing Frames of Immigrant Integration in the EU: geographies of social inclusion in Italian regions"

"Germany: The trading state unleashed"

"Gendered occupational shifts in the transition to parenthood: The influence of personal networks"

"Culture 3.0: from cultural spillovers to socially embedded cultural participation. The cultural welfare perspective"

"Small Differences That Matter: The Impact of Discussion Modalities on Deliberative Outcomes"

"Affordable Social investment as no-regret Policy"

"Conservative and innovative policy change in labour market reforms. A policy process-based explanatory framework" abstract The main explanations of labour policy reforms focus on either endogenous or exogenous factors that have triggered change in some specific critical junctures. As such, they seek to explain the introduction of reforms, i.e. why policy change occured. By contrast, building on theories of…

"Gender Equality Perceptions, Division of Paid And Unpaid Work, And Partnership Dissolution In Sweden" at Campus Luigi Einaudi abstract With the increase in female employment and the decrease in gender labor specialization there has also been a marked change in gender role attitudes. An increasing proportion of women and men has come to prefer gender…

"Institutional Roots of Economic Decline: Lessons from Italy"  

"The Design of Fiscal Governance Rules of the European Union"

"The employment-pension nexus in Coordinated Market Economies: a Comparative Study of Germany and Japan since 2001" abstract This presentation analyses the implications of the pension reforms for employment relationships and HR policies in the two prime examples of coordinated market economies (CME), Germany and Japan, in the past 10 years.  While studies of recent public…

"Politicization without democratization: The impact of the Eurozone crisis on EU constitutionalism" abstract The paper will demonstrate how the European integration process overburdened EU law in an attempt to overcome political deficiencies, with negative consequences for the Union’s democratic legitimacy. The analysis is framed by the ‘twin crises’ of twenty-first century EU constitutionalism: the defeat…

"Upgrading in Spain: an institutional perspective" abstract This paper summarises the main contributions of a book manuscript that aimed to explain the recent rise of Spain’s firms in complex service sectors, and the parallel fall in capital and skill intensive manufacturing sectors through the analysis of the institutional structure that enabled it. I argued that…

"Within-Couple Inequality in Earnings and the Relative Motherhood Penalty. A Cross-National Study of European Countries" abstract While much research has focused on the difference in earnings between childless women and men, mothers and fathers, somewhat less is known on the difference in earnings between women and their partners. This article investigates within couple earnings inequality…

"Social class and subjective well-being: a cross-country comparison" abstract In almost every country, individuals in the upper class enjoy, on average, higher subjective well being (SWB) than individuals in the lower class. However, the size of the SWB gap varies signicantly across countries; in other words, class seems to determine SWB to a greater extent in…