Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

LUHNIP's March 2024 Brief on Italian #PoliticalEconomy is out, featuring:
- Silicon Box's €3.2 billion investment in semiconductor industry
- Italy's approach to AI
- Women's condition in the Italian labor market
👉🏻Download: bit.ly/4b3s9hL
#ChipsAct #AI #LaborMarket

We are hiring! Lecturer in British Politics. P&IR Edinburgh School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh Deadline 14 May. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Academia is either:
- Do you have capacity in the next 40 minutes to review this book?
OR
- Apologies for the late response but the past decade has been hectic, still keen to chat?

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New paper out with Kathleen Thelen in Socio-Economic Review

Arrangers and orchestrators: the diverging role of the state in Danish and German vocational education and training academic.oup.com/ser/article-ab…

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“On average […] about one in four poor households saw their household income reduced as a net result of national tax and transfer policy […] with fiscal impoverishment levels ranging from <10% of all poor households in Finland to more than 70% in Italy” 😳🤯

Periodic reminder: a substantial fraction of households is pushed into poverty by the redistributive system ⬇️ Joint work with Rourke OBrien now #openaccess in the most recent issue Social Forces! doi.org/10.1093/sf/soa…

Si va verso Amadeus candidato del campo largo a Bari.

🚨New special issue Journal of European Social Policy edited by yours truly & Benjamin Leruth 🚨Have a look at our introduction 'A farewell to welfare? Conceptualising welfare populism, welfare chauvinism and welfare Euroscepticism' and the 8 articles we included in this project 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Inequality in the UK is overwhelmingly *within* generations, not between them. .

Not about old vs young/'privileged boomers', but income and wealth inequality.

(As I've been saying for last decade..)

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GOVPET researchers were well represented at the Politics of Inequality conference. Patrick Emmenegger presented a paper with Matthias Haslberger and niccolo durazzi on how dual VET moderates the relationship between technological change and social policy preferences.

New open access article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…
The‘two lives’ of Esping-Andersen and the revival of a research programme: Gender equality, employment and redistribution in contemporary social policy.
The analysis is a pretext to debate about 'our way of doing social policy'

🚨just two weeks to go before we welcome the one and only Björn Bremer in Edinburgh for the presentation of his book 'Austerity from the Left' 🤩

In Lombardia vive il 17% della popolazione italiana. Mistero risolto.

New paper out in Governance Journal: Katrijn Siderius & I analyze the role & distributive impact of individual ministers in policy-making. We show: Controlling for a range of alterantive explanations, which ministry drafts a bill has substantive implications (for inequality).

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What a great experience, coming together with works councils, students, union reps to talk about the radical right in contemporary capitalism & welfare. Many thanks to AK Oberösterreich for putting this together!

Apprentices are the worst paid workers in the UK.

1 in 3 apprentices aged 18-22 earn under the minimum wage!

Take a stand against poverty pay – write to your MP asking them to raise the apprentice minimum wage to the Real Living Wage: nus.org.uk/apprentice-liv…