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Paolo Barbieri

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ID256807
NAMEPaolo Barbieri
GIVEN NAMESPaolo
FAMILY NAMEBarbieri
SIGNATUREBARBIERI P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Trento
ORCID0000-0003-3300-6364
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS292
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX9
  • This sounds important: Electrophysiological responses reveal a dedicated learning mechanism to process salient consonant sounds in human newborns

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Pietro Sarasso et al.•ARTICLE•Psychonomic Bulletin & Review•2026

    Isolating relevant sounds in the auditory stream is a crucial feat accomplished by human infants and a pivotal ability for language acquisition. It is therefore reasonable to postulate the existence of early mechanisms that reorient attention toward salient acoustic stimuli. Previous studies suggest that infants tend to allocate more attention to consonant sounds because they resemble human vocalizations. However, systematic evidence on the neura…

  • Is a liberal school-to-work system more ‘meritocratic’? Overeducation, social origin, and early career mobility in Germany and the United Kingdom

    Open Access•Irene Michelin, Filippo Gioachin et al.•ARTICLE•Research in Social Stratification…•2026•References: 22

  • Hiring intentions at the intersection of gender, parenthood, and social status. A factorial survey experiment in the UK labour market

    Open Access•Anna Zamberlan, Filippo Gioachin et al.•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 56

    Extant literature points to the gender, parenthood, and social status of job applicants as crucial factors influencing employers’ hiring preferences and behaviours. However, little is known about whether and to what extent the intersection of these attributes leads to specific forms of hiring discrimination. This study aims to fill this research gap by examining whether labour market (dis)advantages related to gender, parenthood, and social statu…

  • Citizenship Acquisition and Labour Market Outcomes Among Immigrants in Italy: Evidence From Linked Survey‐Register Data

    Open Access•Davide Gritti, Filippo Gioachin et al.•ARTICLE•International Migration•2025•References: 13

    The literature shows that immigrants who acquire citizenship tend to achieve better labour market outcomes than those who do not, though this may reflect positive selection rather than a causal effect. This study is the first to examine the consequences of citizenship acquisition for immigrants in Italy, a country with rising naturalisation rates and persistent ethnic penalties. Using nationally representative survey and register data for 2016, w…

  • The gendered role of occupational characteristics in lifelong singlehood across Italian birth cohorts

    Beatrice Caniglia, Anna Zamberlan et al.•ARTICLE•Population Studies•2025•References: 58

    While concerns have been raised about declining marriage and fertility rates and increasing union dissolution, less attention has been paid to individuals remaining single. We ask whether individuals with different occupational characteristics experience different chances of remaining single throughout their lives and whether this relationship has changed across birth cohorts for men or women. We focus on Italy, a familistic context where exacerb…

  • Unstable employment careers and (quasi-)completed fertility: Evidence from the labour market deregulation in Italy

    Open Access•Giammarco Alderotti, Raffaele Guetto et al.•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 57

    Most research on the fertility consequences of labour market instability has focussed on the transition to parenthood, ignoring potential 'catching up' effects and, thus, the more encompassing view on cohort fertility. This work extends on this point by analysing the consequences of employment instability on (quasi-)completed fertility for men and women in Italy. From a cohort perspective, we look at fertility outcomes at age 41 among those who e…

  • Virtual Social Interaction in a Multiplayer-Online Video Game Increases Implicit Learning: An EEG Study

    Open Access•Elena Del Fante, Francesca Piovesan et al.•ARTICLE•Cyberpsychology Behavior and…•2024

    It is well known that social interaction enhances learning processes, improving abilities such as attention and memorization. However, it is not clear whether similar advantages may be obtained even in virtual environments. Here, we investigate whether virtual interactions in a video game, similarly to real-life social interactions, may improve individuals’ performance in a subsequent implicit learning task. Twenty-one healthy participants were a…

  • In-work poverty in Western Europe. A longitudinal perspective

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli et al.•ARTICLE•European Societies•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 20

    This study investigates levels and determinants of in-work poverty (IWP) in Western Europe using EU-SILC longitudinal data 2004–2019. We compared IWP risk and their dynamics across fourteen countries by examining individual labor market positions, household total labor supplies, and employment patterns. We further explored the social class gradient in exposure to IWP, as well as drivers and patterns of longitudinal accumulation of poverty. Relyin…

  • A 'potential motherhood' penalty? A longitudinal analysis of the wage gap based on potential fertility in Germany and the United Kingdom

    Open Access•Anna Zamberlan, Paolo Barbieri•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 50

    While labour market penalties related to motherhood are a widely studied topic, less is known about the implications of signalled potential fertility. We thus posed the question of whether potential fertility-operationalized as the likelihood that a childless woman will transition to motherhood depending on observed sociodemographic characteristics-is associated with a wage penalty and-if so-what the drivers of this wage gap are. We further teste…

  • Preferred music listening is associated with perceptual learning enhancement at the expense of self-focused attention

    Open Access•Pietro Sarasso, Paolo Barbieri et al.•ARTICLE•Psychonomic Bulletin & Review•2022

    Can preferred music listening improve following attentional and learning performances? Here we suggest that this may be the case. In Experiment 1, following preferred and non-preferred musical-piece listening, we recorded electrophysiological responses to an auditory roving-paradigm. We computed the mismatch negativity (MMN – the difference between responses to novel and repeated stimulation), as an index of perceptual learning, and we measured t…

  • The Dynamics of Organizational Autonomy: Oscillations at Automobili Lamborghini

    Open Access•Brice Dattée, Jean-Luc Arrègle et al.•ARTICLE•Administrative Science Quarterly•2022

    Through a 21-year longitudinal study of the relationship between Italian supercar manufacturer Automobili Lamborghini and its parent, German carmaker Audi AG, we examine how a unit’s degree of organizational autonomy is renegotiated over long periods of time. Using detailed empirical data, we develop a process model of the dynamics of organizational autonomy in a unit–parent relationship. This process model shows an ongoing dialectical tension be…

  • Culture portability from origin to destination country: The gender division of domestic work among migrants in Italy

    Open Access•Elisa Brini, Anna Zamberlan et al.•ARTICLE•Demographic Research•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 70

    The relative importance of a cultural component in the gender division of unpaid labour is still debated

  • Memorisation and implicit perceptual learning are enhanced for preferred musical intervals and chords

    Open Access•Pietro Sarasso, Pasqualina Perna et al.•ARTICLE•Psychonomic Bulletin & Review•2021

    Is it true that we learn better what we like? Current neuroaesthetic and neurocomputational models of aesthetic appreciation postulate the existence of a correlation between aesthetic appreciation and learning. However, even though aesthetic appreciation has been associated with attentional enhancements, systematic evidence demonstrating its influence on learning processes is still lacking. Here, in two experiments, we investigated the relationsh…

  • Social origin and secondary labour market entry: Ascriptive and institutional inequalities over the early career in Italy and Germany

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Filippo Gioachin•ARTICLE•Research in Social Stratification…•2021•Cited by: 9•References: 37

    This paper investigates how labour market flexibilisation strengthens the role of social origin in conditioning inter- and intragenerational mobility chances. Drawing on the upper-class aversion to downward mobility, we explore mechanisms through which advantaged social origin directly compensate for the socioeconomic penalty that arises from initial contractual instability over the career. Conversely, we examine whether a bad start for less-soci…

  • Part-time employment as a way to increase women’s employment: (Where) does it work

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019•Cited by: 13•References: 71

    Part-time employment has repeatedly been proposed as a solution for integrating women into the labor market; however, empirical evidence supporting a causal link is mixed. In this text, we investigate the extent to which increasing part-time employment is a valid means of augmenting women’s labor market participation. We pay particular attention to the institutional context and the related characteristics of part-time employment in European count…

  • Substitution, entrapment, and inefficiency? Cohort inequalities in a two-tier labour market

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli et al.•ARTICLE•Socio-Economic Review•2019•Cited by: 12•References: 51

    In this article, we provide a longitudinal account of institutionally originated, cohort inequalities in a two-tier labour market, taking Italy as an exemplary case of partial and targeted deregulation. We examine the incidence and career consequences of temporary employment relying on panel data, across reforms implemented in the 1990s and early 2000s. A substitution effect is found for the initial stages of workers' careers: while the youngest …

  • The direct effect of social origin on men’s occupational attainment over the early life course: An Italian–Dutch comparison

    Open Access•Giampiero Passaretta, Paolo Barbieri et al.•ARTICLE•Research in Social Stratification…•2018•Cited by: 16•References: 23

  • Welfare, labour market deregulation and households’ poverty risks: An analysis of the risk of entering poverty at childbirth in different European welfare clusters

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Rossella Bozzon•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2016•Cited by: 21•References: 12

    This article deals with families’ risk of entering poverty as a consequence of childbirth in four European Union (EU) welfare clusters. Poverty risks around childbirth are institutionally stratified according to specific characteristics of national welfare systems and the value they assign to family policies as well as the kind of labour market deregulation. While southern European countries are known for having welfare systems that make few prov…

  • Introduction to the Special Section: Employment Protection Legislation and Labour Markets in Europe

    Paolo Barbieri•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    SPECIAL ISSUE DI EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW SU EPL E MERCATI DEL LAVORO IN EU

  • Employment Protection Legislation, Labour Market Dualism, and Inequality in Europe

    Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2016•Cited by: 26•References: 40

    This article deals with the relation between labour market regulation and the dynamics of overall employment and unemployment in continental Europe. We investigate the impact of the reforms of employment protection systems and activating welfare policies and test the integrative power of marginal labour market deregulation, assessing occupational outcomes of changing workforce exposure to unemployment and fixed-term contracts. Thus, particular at…

  • Institutions and the school-to-work transition: Disentangling the Role of the Macro-Institutional Context

    Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli et al.•ARTICLE•Socio-Economic Review•2016•References: 37

  • The Rise of a Latin Model? Family and fertility consequences of employment instability in Italy and Spain

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Rossella Bozzon et al.•ARTICLE•European Societies•2015•Cited by: 30•References: 11

    This paper analyses how unstable employment influences becoming a mother in Italy and Spain. Results suggest that institutional factors foster dynamics of social inequality and hinder family formation. We show that in southern Europe (Italy and Spain), but not in other institutional contexts, the lack of employment stability produces a delay in fertility decision. We attribute this impact of the employment situation on demographic decisions to th…

  • European Sociological Review

    Merlin Schaeffer, Mikkel Larsen et al.•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2011•Cited by: 29

    Journal Article European Sociological Review Get access European Sociological Review, Volume 27, Issue 4, August 2011, Page i2, https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcr061 Published: 30 July 2011

  • Flexible Employment and Inequality in Europe

    Paolo Barbieri•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2009•Cited by: 46•References: 17

    Since the crisis of the Fordist ‘golden age’ with its corollaries of stable, full-time, full-life, (male) full-employment and of full-welfare entitlements, ‘flexibility’ has become a sort of ‘magic world’ to address almost all kind of welfare-and-labour market needs for re-equilibrium. As a matter of fact, flexibility is a multi-dimensional term. Following Atkinson (1984) we can briefly recall the four different types of labour market flexibility…

  • Labour Market Flexibilization and its Consequences in Italy

    Paolo Barbieri, Scherer et al.•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2009•Cited by: 66•References: 27

    Labor market ‘flexibilization’ or ‘deregulation’ is seen by many as a requirement for economic and occupational growth. As one route towards more flexibility, many European countries increased the so-called atypical or non-standard forms of employment while leaving the regulation of existing employment relations largely unchanged. In Italy, this led to a strong segmentation of the labour market. As employment is the only connection to a series of…

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  • Labour Market Flexibilization and its Consequences in Italy

    Paolo Barbieri, Scherer et al.•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2009•Cited by: 66•References: 27

    Labor market ‘flexibilization’ or ‘deregulation’ is seen by many as a requirement for economic and occupational growth. As one route towards more flexibility, many European countries increased the so-called atypical or non-standard forms of employment while leaving the regulation of existing employment relations largely unchanged. In Italy, this led to a strong segmentation of the labour market. As employment is the only connection to a series of…

  • Flexible Employment and Inequality in Europe

    Paolo Barbieri•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2009•Cited by: 46•References: 17

    Since the crisis of the Fordist ‘golden age’ with its corollaries of stable, full-time, full-life, (male) full-employment and of full-welfare entitlements, ‘flexibility’ has become a sort of ‘magic world’ to address almost all kind of welfare-and-labour market needs for re-equilibrium. As a matter of fact, flexibility is a multi-dimensional term. Following Atkinson (1984) we can briefly recall the four different types of labour market flexibility…

  • The Rise of a Latin Model? Family and fertility consequences of employment instability in Italy and Spain

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Rossella Bozzon et al.•ARTICLE•European Societies•2015•Cited by: 30•References: 11

    This paper analyses how unstable employment influences becoming a mother in Italy and Spain. Results suggest that institutional factors foster dynamics of social inequality and hinder family formation. We show that in southern Europe (Italy and Spain), but not in other institutional contexts, the lack of employment stability produces a delay in fertility decision. We attribute this impact of the employment situation on demographic decisions to th…

  • European Sociological Review

    Merlin Schaeffer, Mikkel Larsen et al.•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2011•Cited by: 29

    Journal Article European Sociological Review Get access European Sociological Review, Volume 27, Issue 4, August 2011, Page i2, https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcr061 Published: 30 July 2011

  • Employment Protection Legislation, Labour Market Dualism, and Inequality in Europe

    Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2016•Cited by: 26•References: 40

    This article deals with the relation between labour market regulation and the dynamics of overall employment and unemployment in continental Europe. We investigate the impact of the reforms of employment protection systems and activating welfare policies and test the integrative power of marginal labour market deregulation, assessing occupational outcomes of changing workforce exposure to unemployment and fixed-term contracts. Thus, particular at…

  • Welfare, labour market deregulation and households’ poverty risks: An analysis of the risk of entering poverty at childbirth in different European welfare clusters

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Rossella Bozzon•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2016•Cited by: 21•References: 12

    This article deals with families’ risk of entering poverty as a consequence of childbirth in four European Union (EU) welfare clusters. Poverty risks around childbirth are institutionally stratified according to specific characteristics of national welfare systems and the value they assign to family policies as well as the kind of labour market deregulation. While southern European countries are known for having welfare systems that make few prov…

  • The direct effect of social origin on men’s occupational attainment over the early life course: An Italian–Dutch comparison

    Open Access•Giampiero Passaretta, Paolo Barbieri et al.•ARTICLE•Research in Social Stratification…•2018•Cited by: 16•References: 23

  • Part-time employment as a way to increase women’s employment: (Where) does it work

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019•Cited by: 13•References: 71

    Part-time employment has repeatedly been proposed as a solution for integrating women into the labor market; however, empirical evidence supporting a causal link is mixed. In this text, we investigate the extent to which increasing part-time employment is a valid means of augmenting women’s labor market participation. We pay particular attention to the institutional context and the related characteristics of part-time employment in European count…

  • Substitution, entrapment, and inefficiency? Cohort inequalities in a two-tier labour market

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli et al.•ARTICLE•Socio-Economic Review•2019•Cited by: 12•References: 51

    In this article, we provide a longitudinal account of institutionally originated, cohort inequalities in a two-tier labour market, taking Italy as an exemplary case of partial and targeted deregulation. We examine the incidence and career consequences of temporary employment relying on panel data, across reforms implemented in the 1990s and early 2000s. A substitution effect is found for the initial stages of workers' careers: while the youngest …

  • Social origin and secondary labour market entry: Ascriptive and institutional inequalities over the early career in Italy and Germany

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Filippo Gioachin•ARTICLE•Research in Social Stratification…•2021•Cited by: 9•References: 37

    This paper investigates how labour market flexibilisation strengthens the role of social origin in conditioning inter- and intragenerational mobility chances. Drawing on the upper-class aversion to downward mobility, we explore mechanisms through which advantaged social origin directly compensate for the socioeconomic penalty that arises from initial contractual instability over the career. Conversely, we examine whether a bad start for less-soci…

  • Male Self-Employment in Four European Countries: The Relevance of Education and Experience Across Industries

    Silvia Luber, Henning Lohmann et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Sociology•2000•Cited by: 5•References: 2

    This article investigates the patterns of male nonagricultural self-employment in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. It is argued that the development of self-employment in these four countries is based on specific institutional and economic frameworks resulting in different opportunities and incentives for taking up self-employment. These differences affect the relevance of individual resources like education and work experience. Th…

  • Social Capital and Self-Employment: A Network Analysis Experiment and Several Considerations

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri•ARTICLE•International Sociology•2003•Cited by: 4•References: 23

    In this article, the author investigates individuals' social capital, adopting a micro-relational perspective. The definition of social capital adopted is centred on personal contacts and exchanges. Reconstructing individuals' net-works can precisely depict the network resources utilized by the actors. The study builds on the accumulated knowledge of previous research and literature on social capital, but directs attention to occupational divisio…

  • In-work poverty in Western Europe. A longitudinal perspective

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli et al.•ARTICLE•European Societies•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 20

    This study investigates levels and determinants of in-work poverty (IWP) in Western Europe using EU-SILC longitudinal data 2004–2019. We compared IWP risk and their dynamics across fourteen countries by examining individual labor market positions, household total labor supplies, and employment patterns. We further explored the social class gradient in exposure to IWP, as well as drivers and patterns of longitudinal accumulation of poverty. Relyin…

  • Culture portability from origin to destination country: The gender division of domestic work among migrants in Italy

    Open Access•Elisa Brini, Anna Zamberlan et al.•ARTICLE•Demographic Research•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 70

    The relative importance of a cultural component in the gender division of unpaid labour is still debated

  • Unstable employment careers and (quasi-)completed fertility: Evidence from the labour market deregulation in Italy

    Open Access•Giammarco Alderotti, Raffaele Guetto et al.•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 57

    Most research on the fertility consequences of labour market instability has focussed on the transition to parenthood, ignoring potential 'catching up' effects and, thus, the more encompassing view on cohort fertility. This work extends on this point by analysing the consequences of employment instability on (quasi-)completed fertility for men and women in Italy. From a cohort perspective, we look at fertility outcomes at age 41 among those who e…

  • A 'potential motherhood' penalty? A longitudinal analysis of the wage gap based on potential fertility in Germany and the United Kingdom

    Open Access•Anna Zamberlan, Paolo Barbieri•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 50

    While labour market penalties related to motherhood are a widely studied topic, less is known about the implications of signalled potential fertility. We thus posed the question of whether potential fertility-operationalized as the likelihood that a childless woman will transition to motherhood depending on observed sociodemographic characteristics-is associated with a wage penalty and-if so-what the drivers of this wage gap are. We further teste…

  • Introduction to the Special Section: Employment Protection Legislation and Labour Markets in Europe

    Paolo Barbieri•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    SPECIAL ISSUE DI EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW SU EPL E MERCATI DEL LAVORO IN EU

  • Self-Employment in Italy: Does Labor Market Rigidity Matter

    Paolo Barbieri•ARTICLE•International Journal of Sociology•2001•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    Self-employment has again become a focus of sociological and economic analyses as a consequence of the high levels of European unemployment. Observers and politicians have long believed that self-employment could be a good and cheap remedy for unemployment and lack of job creation. The debate continues, even now, when self-employment growth has stabilized. Labor economists formerly considered self-employment to be a function of labor market rigid…

  • Hiring intentions at the intersection of gender, parenthood, and social status. A factorial survey experiment in the UK labour market

    Open Access•Anna Zamberlan, Filippo Gioachin et al.•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 56

    Extant literature points to the gender, parenthood, and social status of job applicants as crucial factors influencing employers’ hiring preferences and behaviours. However, little is known about whether and to what extent the intersection of these attributes leads to specific forms of hiring discrimination. This study aims to fill this research gap by examining whether labour market (dis)advantages related to gender, parenthood, and social statu…

  • Male Self-Employment in Four European Countries: The Relevance of Education and Experience Across Industries

    Silvia Luber, Henning Lohmann et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Sociology•2000•Cited by: 5•References: 2

    This article investigates the patterns of male nonagricultural self-employment in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. It is argued that the development of self-employment in these four countries is based on specific institutional and economic frameworks resulting in different opportunities and incentives for taking up self-employment. These differences affect the relevance of individual resources like education and work experience. Th…

  • Self-Employment in Italy: Does Labor Market Rigidity Matter

    Paolo Barbieri•ARTICLE•International Journal of Sociology•2001•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    Self-employment has again become a focus of sociological and economic analyses as a consequence of the high levels of European unemployment. Observers and politicians have long believed that self-employment could be a good and cheap remedy for unemployment and lack of job creation. The debate continues, even now, when self-employment growth has stabilized. Labor economists formerly considered self-employment to be a function of labor market rigid…

  • Social Capital and Self-Employment: A Network Analysis Experiment and Several Considerations

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri•ARTICLE•International Sociology•2003•Cited by: 4•References: 23

    In this article, the author investigates individuals' social capital, adopting a micro-relational perspective. The definition of social capital adopted is centred on personal contacts and exchanges. Reconstructing individuals' net-works can precisely depict the network resources utilized by the actors. The study builds on the accumulated knowledge of previous research and literature on social capital, but directs attention to occupational divisio…

  • Flexible Employment and Inequality in Europe

    Paolo Barbieri•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2009•Cited by: 46•References: 17

    Since the crisis of the Fordist ‘golden age’ with its corollaries of stable, full-time, full-life, (male) full-employment and of full-welfare entitlements, ‘flexibility’ has become a sort of ‘magic world’ to address almost all kind of welfare-and-labour market needs for re-equilibrium. As a matter of fact, flexibility is a multi-dimensional term. Following Atkinson (1984) we can briefly recall the four different types of labour market flexibility…

  • Labour Market Flexibilization and its Consequences in Italy

    Paolo Barbieri, Scherer et al.•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2009•Cited by: 66•References: 27

    Labor market ‘flexibilization’ or ‘deregulation’ is seen by many as a requirement for economic and occupational growth. As one route towards more flexibility, many European countries increased the so-called atypical or non-standard forms of employment while leaving the regulation of existing employment relations largely unchanged. In Italy, this led to a strong segmentation of the labour market. As employment is the only connection to a series of…

  • European Sociological Review

    Merlin Schaeffer, Mikkel Larsen et al.•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2011•Cited by: 29

    Journal Article European Sociological Review Get access European Sociological Review, Volume 27, Issue 4, August 2011, Page i2, https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcr061 Published: 30 July 2011

  • The Rise of a Latin Model? Family and fertility consequences of employment instability in Italy and Spain

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Rossella Bozzon et al.•ARTICLE•European Societies•2015•Cited by: 30•References: 11

    This paper analyses how unstable employment influences becoming a mother in Italy and Spain. Results suggest that institutional factors foster dynamics of social inequality and hinder family formation. We show that in southern Europe (Italy and Spain), but not in other institutional contexts, the lack of employment stability produces a delay in fertility decision. We attribute this impact of the employment situation on demographic decisions to th…

  • Welfare, labour market deregulation and households’ poverty risks: An analysis of the risk of entering poverty at childbirth in different European welfare clusters

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Rossella Bozzon•ARTICLE•Journal of European Social Policy•2016•Cited by: 21•References: 12

    This article deals with families’ risk of entering poverty as a consequence of childbirth in four European Union (EU) welfare clusters. Poverty risks around childbirth are institutionally stratified according to specific characteristics of national welfare systems and the value they assign to family policies as well as the kind of labour market deregulation. While southern European countries are known for having welfare systems that make few prov…

  • Introduction to the Special Section: Employment Protection Legislation and Labour Markets in Europe

    Paolo Barbieri•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2016•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    SPECIAL ISSUE DI EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW SU EPL E MERCATI DEL LAVORO IN EU

  • Employment Protection Legislation, Labour Market Dualism, and Inequality in Europe

    Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2016•Cited by: 26•References: 40

    This article deals with the relation between labour market regulation and the dynamics of overall employment and unemployment in continental Europe. We investigate the impact of the reforms of employment protection systems and activating welfare policies and test the integrative power of marginal labour market deregulation, assessing occupational outcomes of changing workforce exposure to unemployment and fixed-term contracts. Thus, particular at…

  • Institutions and the school-to-work transition: Disentangling the Role of the Macro-Institutional Context

    Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli et al.•ARTICLE•Socio-Economic Review•2016•References: 37

  • The direct effect of social origin on men’s occupational attainment over the early life course: An Italian–Dutch comparison

    Open Access•Giampiero Passaretta, Paolo Barbieri et al.•ARTICLE•Research in Social Stratification…•2018•Cited by: 16•References: 23

  • Part-time employment as a way to increase women’s employment: (Where) does it work

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019•Cited by: 13•References: 71

    Part-time employment has repeatedly been proposed as a solution for integrating women into the labor market; however, empirical evidence supporting a causal link is mixed. In this text, we investigate the extent to which increasing part-time employment is a valid means of augmenting women’s labor market participation. We pay particular attention to the institutional context and the related characteristics of part-time employment in European count…

  • Substitution, entrapment, and inefficiency? Cohort inequalities in a two-tier labour market

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli et al.•ARTICLE•Socio-Economic Review•2019•Cited by: 12•References: 51

    In this article, we provide a longitudinal account of institutionally originated, cohort inequalities in a two-tier labour market, taking Italy as an exemplary case of partial and targeted deregulation. We examine the incidence and career consequences of temporary employment relying on panel data, across reforms implemented in the 1990s and early 2000s. A substitution effect is found for the initial stages of workers' careers: while the youngest …

  • Memorisation and implicit perceptual learning are enhanced for preferred musical intervals and chords

    Open Access•Pietro Sarasso, Pasqualina Perna et al.•ARTICLE•Psychonomic Bulletin & Review•2021

    Is it true that we learn better what we like? Current neuroaesthetic and neurocomputational models of aesthetic appreciation postulate the existence of a correlation between aesthetic appreciation and learning. However, even though aesthetic appreciation has been associated with attentional enhancements, systematic evidence demonstrating its influence on learning processes is still lacking. Here, in two experiments, we investigated the relationsh…

  • Social origin and secondary labour market entry: Ascriptive and institutional inequalities over the early career in Italy and Germany

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Filippo Gioachin•ARTICLE•Research in Social Stratification…•2021•Cited by: 9•References: 37

    This paper investigates how labour market flexibilisation strengthens the role of social origin in conditioning inter- and intragenerational mobility chances. Drawing on the upper-class aversion to downward mobility, we explore mechanisms through which advantaged social origin directly compensate for the socioeconomic penalty that arises from initial contractual instability over the career. Conversely, we examine whether a bad start for less-soci…

  • Preferred music listening is associated with perceptual learning enhancement at the expense of self-focused attention

    Open Access•Pietro Sarasso, Paolo Barbieri et al.•ARTICLE•Psychonomic Bulletin & Review•2022

    Can preferred music listening improve following attentional and learning performances? Here we suggest that this may be the case. In Experiment 1, following preferred and non-preferred musical-piece listening, we recorded electrophysiological responses to an auditory roving-paradigm. We computed the mismatch negativity (MMN – the difference between responses to novel and repeated stimulation), as an index of perceptual learning, and we measured t…

  • The Dynamics of Organizational Autonomy: Oscillations at Automobili Lamborghini

    Open Access•Brice Dattée, Jean-Luc Arrègle et al.•ARTICLE•Administrative Science Quarterly•2022

    Through a 21-year longitudinal study of the relationship between Italian supercar manufacturer Automobili Lamborghini and its parent, German carmaker Audi AG, we examine how a unit’s degree of organizational autonomy is renegotiated over long periods of time. Using detailed empirical data, we develop a process model of the dynamics of organizational autonomy in a unit–parent relationship. This process model shows an ongoing dialectical tension be…

  • Culture portability from origin to destination country: The gender division of domestic work among migrants in Italy

    Open Access•Elisa Brini, Anna Zamberlan et al.•ARTICLE•Demographic Research•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 70

    The relative importance of a cultural component in the gender division of unpaid labour is still debated

  • A 'potential motherhood' penalty? A longitudinal analysis of the wage gap based on potential fertility in Germany and the United Kingdom

    Open Access•Anna Zamberlan, Paolo Barbieri•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 50

    While labour market penalties related to motherhood are a widely studied topic, less is known about the implications of signalled potential fertility. We thus posed the question of whether potential fertility-operationalized as the likelihood that a childless woman will transition to motherhood depending on observed sociodemographic characteristics-is associated with a wage penalty and-if so-what the drivers of this wage gap are. We further teste…

  • Virtual Social Interaction in a Multiplayer-Online Video Game Increases Implicit Learning: An EEG Study

    Open Access•Elena Del Fante, Francesca Piovesan et al.•ARTICLE•Cyberpsychology Behavior and…•2024

    It is well known that social interaction enhances learning processes, improving abilities such as attention and memorization. However, it is not clear whether similar advantages may be obtained even in virtual environments. Here, we investigate whether virtual interactions in a video game, similarly to real-life social interactions, may improve individuals’ performance in a subsequent implicit learning task. Twenty-one healthy participants were a…

  • In-work poverty in Western Europe. A longitudinal perspective

    Open Access•Paolo Barbieri, Giorgio Cutuli et al.•ARTICLE•European Societies•2024•Cited by: 3•References: 20

    This study investigates levels and determinants of in-work poverty (IWP) in Western Europe using EU-SILC longitudinal data 2004–2019. We compared IWP risk and their dynamics across fourteen countries by examining individual labor market positions, household total labor supplies, and employment patterns. We further explored the social class gradient in exposure to IWP, as well as drivers and patterns of longitudinal accumulation of poverty. Relyin…

  • Hiring intentions at the intersection of gender, parenthood, and social status. A factorial survey experiment in the UK labour market

    Open Access•Anna Zamberlan, Filippo Gioachin et al.•ARTICLE•European Sociological Review•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 56

    Extant literature points to the gender, parenthood, and social status of job applicants as crucial factors influencing employers’ hiring preferences and behaviours. However, little is known about whether and to what extent the intersection of these attributes leads to specific forms of hiring discrimination. This study aims to fill this research gap by examining whether labour market (dis)advantages related to gender, parenthood, and social statu…

  • Citizenship Acquisition and Labour Market Outcomes Among Immigrants in Italy: Evidence From Linked Survey‐Register Data

    Open Access•Davide Gritti, Filippo Gioachin et al.•ARTICLE•International Migration•2025•References: 13

    The literature shows that immigrants who acquire citizenship tend to achieve better labour market outcomes than those who do not, though this may reflect positive selection rather than a causal effect. This study is the first to examine the consequences of citizenship acquisition for immigrants in Italy, a country with rising naturalisation rates and persistent ethnic penalties. Using nationally representative survey and register data for 2016, w…

  • The gendered role of occupational characteristics in lifelong singlehood across Italian birth cohorts

    Beatrice Caniglia, Anna Zamberlan et al.•ARTICLE•Population Studies•2025•References: 58

    While concerns have been raised about declining marriage and fertility rates and increasing union dissolution, less attention has been paid to individuals remaining single. We ask whether individuals with different occupational characteristics experience different chances of remaining single throughout their lives and whether this relationship has changed across birth cohorts for men or women. We focus on Italy, a familistic context where exacerb…

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