... individual adaptability, this research provides a structural analysis of labour inertia in Italy. It highlights the sector-specific nature of ageism, framing late-career inequalities as cumulative disadvantage, where rigid pension policies interact with industrial segmentation to generate occupational lock...

... of AA policies, including those targeting the labour market and retirement. The aim of this study is to identify and analyse national and regional AA policies focused on paid-work and the retirement transition in Italy. Design/methodology/approach A systematic policy review was conducted in 2019...

...Claudia Colombarolli; Nicola De Luigi; Giovanni Amerigo Giuliani Purpose This article explores income and territorial inequalities in the uptake of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services for children aged 0–2 in two contrasting welfare contexts, Italy and Sweden. It investigates...

... religious upbringing shape the experiences of young Nones in societies with differing secularization paths, such as Italy and Russia? To explore this question, the PRSI is introduced and tested for validity on a sample of university students (N = 1810, including 645 Nones). Findings...

...Sara Romanò; Tiziana Nazio Purpose In Italy, internships were introduced in higher education to ease graduates’ entry into the labor market, addressing youth unemployment and overeducation attributed to low job-specific skills. We investigate whether internships during and after the degree program...

..., considering distinct push and pull factors. Millennials LGBT Tourist behaviour Generations Italy Travel decision-making Multiple correspondence analysis Sociological researches about tourism of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are growing in number. These studies...

... towards organ donation and general knowledge of donation procedures have been widely analysed among health care students and professionals in Italy (Fontana et al., 2017 ; Canova et al., 2006 ; Pugliese et al., 2001) and in other countries (Hakeem et al., 2021...

... Russo is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: concetta.russo@unimib.it 19 04 2021 24 06 2021 24 06 2021 Psychological well-being Unemployment Parental roles Gender perspective Italy In the aftermath of the 2008 global economic crisis, the World Health...

... findings highlight the fact that the boundaries of everyday practices have been completely reframed during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Italy. Informants show that scarcity of personal spaces, intertwined with the collapse of the boundaries between private and professional life, and also the lack...

.... During the closing months of 2018, the “Osservatorio LGBT” of the University of Naples “Federico II” conducted a questionnaire research, consisting of both close-ended and open-ended questions, to investigate behaviours, habits and lifestyles of LGBT population in Italy. The survey tool was built...

... of the two research traditions to analyse patterns of outsourcing in the socio-educational services in Italy, showing that neither of them is able, alone, to explain the different private/public mix characterising different social and educational services. Outsourcing Italy Socio-educational services...

... and opening up to a sustainable and cooperative work-driven economy. Cooperation Italy Self-management Narratives Social resilience Worker-recuperated enterprises This paper is based on an inquiry on Italian worker-recuperated enterprises, a phenomenon that has acquired growing importance...

...Jason L. Powell and Sheying Chen; Egidio Riva; Emma Garavaglia Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which social cooperatives in Italy followed and managed to preserve their core values and principles while withstanding multiple pressures during the great recession...

... framework of analysis for the study of organised crime. It also bridges between the organised crime topic and the sociology of space. Italy Ethnography Space Regeneration Organized crime Anti-mafia policies Compared to other forms of organised crime, Italian mafias stand out by virtue...

... "Migrant strategies, informal economies and ontological security: Ukrainians in Naples, Italy" Nicholas DeMaria Harney Cassamarca Foundation, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia Originality/value – Keywords: Economic conditions, Ethnography...

... of women, highly‐educated employees, managers and white‐collar workers, whereas manual and temporary, but also young workers, are less eligible for workplace arrangements (Istat, 2011). Moreover, similarly to other southern European countries, Italy is characterized by low flexibility and a lack...

...Rik van Berkel; Willibrord de Graaf; Tomáš Sirovátka; Paolo R. Graziano; Jiří Winkler Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the question regarding how the similar implementation traditions in two countries (Czech Republic and Italy) have influenced the implementation of activation...

...Nicholas DeMaria Harney Purpose Naples, Italy in the last decade has become a destination for Ukrainian migrants escaping the economic uncertainty of their homeland. A sign of the city's importance in the diaspora is that the Ukrainian government in 2008 opened a local consulate. Estimates...

... as regards the relation between informational bases, capabilities and the participation of disabled people in building personalised interventions. Raffaele Monteleone can be contacted at: raffaele.monteleone@unimib.it © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Italy Public policy...

...Simone Trinci Purpose This article seeks to explain the role of networks in facilitating immigrant insertion into the labour market. Design/methodology/approach Participant observation and semi‐structured interviews were conducted in Tuscany in Italy with immigrants working in the agricultural...