The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new
post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the …

Austerity has become the new principle for public policy in Europe and the US as the
financial crisis of 2008 has been converted into a public debt crisis. However, current …

Working conditions have changed dramatically over recent decades in all the countries of
European Union: permanent full-time employment characterized by job security and a stable …

The article analyses the effect of gender in professors' career advancement using data on
the entire population of professors in the Italian university system, data on the National …

The scientific debate on social investment (SI) is moving from an ideological and normative
approach towards a more realistic one. Scholars are paying closer attention to the actual …

This article addresses the NEET phenomenon in a longitudinal perspective, by examining
the case of Italy, a country experiencing one of the highest and increasing NEET shares in …

Executive summary The concept of social investment in social policy design has gained
progressive traction in scholarly debates and policy-making environments from the mid …

We use a large Italian employer-employee matched dataset to study how motherhood
affects women's working career in terms of labor force participation and wages. We confirm …

There is widespread concern that episodes of unemployment and unstable working
conditions adversely affect health. We add to the debate by focusing on the relationship …

Italy and Germany have historically lagged behind other European countries in the provision
of childcare and other measures aimed at reconciling work and family life. Yet, in light of …