... 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...

... of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Transplantation extends and improves lives, but the shortage of organs is one of the main factors limiting the number of transplants in Italy, as well as in other countries. This study investigated the awareness about...

... on the mental health outcomes of unemployment, in particular on the likelihood of developing depression. The latter is measured using the internationally validated Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8). Since the gender gap in occupation has not ceased to exist in Italy, special attention is paid...

... 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...

... to accommodate the idiosyncratic traits of Italian mafias with a broader criminological understanding of organised crime, I carried out this ethnography being convinced that, above all, different research methods can serve different research goals (Mahoney and Goertz, 2006). Italy Ethnography Space...

... Economic conditions Ethnography Gender Informal economies Italy Labour mobility Migrants Ontological security Ukraine Article Type: 2013 Awards for Excellence From: International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Volume 34, Issue 1-2 The following article...

... mainly in the north of Italy and employing a skilled workforce. Egidio Riva can be contacted at: egidio.riva@unicatt.it © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 For the purposes of this article, and in accordance with the research questions identified in the introduction, the key...

...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...

... and consider the beneficiaries' voices. Originality/value The paper presents some indications about the relation between public administration and local agencies and its implications and consequences in terms of organisational arrangements for public policies and related services. Italy Public...

...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...