Roberto Rizza
Biographic Data
| ID | 273771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roberto Rizza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Rizza |
| SIGNATURE | RIZZA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6548-2555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Job Insecurity and Life Courses. By SoniaBertolini, ValentinaGoglio, and DirkHofäcker, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2024
The author declares no conflicts of interest. Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
Subsidising silence: How policy ideas entrench Italy’s use of employment subsidies
Italy’s active labour market policy (ALMP) regime is marked by a paradox: despite limited investment in training, job placement services, and direct job creation, the country allocates above-average resources to employment subsidies. While this subsidy-heavy approach is often explained by the structure of Italy’s low-skill, low-productivity economy, this article proposes a complementary explanation grounded in political economy. We argue that the…
Experiencing a Serious Game for the Norman Castle of Aci Castello: A Pilot Project
Cultural heritage, in all its tangible and intangible expressions, is undergoing a process of renewal driven by the integration of digital technologies and participatory approaches. This study presents a pilot project developed within the SAMOTHRACE Fundation, focused on the design of a Serious Game dedicated to the Norman Castle of Aci Castello in Sicily. The project explores how game-based learning and interactive storytelling can enhance visit…
Occupational Gender Segregation and Mental Health among Professionals: Women's Risk Exposure in Five Micro Classes
This study explores the intricate interplay between gender, occupation, and mental health using data from the 2020 EU-LFS ad hoc module on 38,066 female professionals in Western Europe. We examine their exposure to work-related risks impacting mental health, focusing on variables such as work overload, violence, and challenging client interactions. Our primary objective is to discern how various occupations contribute to distinct experiences of w…
Italy and Spain at a crossroads: The politics of active social policies in southern Europe under a gender perspective
Purpose The article explores to what extent party politics has influenced the different trajectories in Spain and Italy in terms of gendered active social policies (ASPs) (i.e. ALMPs and WLBPs). Second, it investigates how social and political modernization in the two countries has facilitated or hindered party competition on gendered ASPs. Design/methodology/approach To investigate to what extent parties support gendered ASPs, the article relies…
Bridging gaps: How investment in public childcare affects women’s employment in Italy and Spain
This paper aims to establish whether, and to what extent, an increase in the public provision of early childhood education and care services (ECEC) has had a positive effect on women’s participation in the labour market in Italy and Spain. It does so by compiling panel data using microdata from the European Labour Force Survey (2006–2018), together with secondary sources of information on public ECEC investment made in the two countries. After co…
Who receives occupational welfare? The importance of skills across Europe’s diverse industrial relations regimes
This study investigates the association between eligibility for occupational welfare and employees’ skill levels. In particular, building on Visser’s classification, we explore (i) the extent to which this relationship is moderated by industrial relations regimes and (ii) whether the moderating effect of industrial relations regimes has changed over time. Analyses draw on the latest three waves (2005, 2010, 2015) of the European Working Condition…
How Stable is Dualisation? The Case of Labour Market and Antipoverty Policies in Italy
This article analyses the old and new dualisation processes that have emerged in Italy in the last twenty years. By focusing on the dualising outcomes of labour market and antipoverty policies, it addresses the trajectories followed by dualisa-tion and their effects on the divides between insiders and outsiders. Within this framework it is argued that dualisation is not a stable equilibrium, but rather the result of the interconnections between i…
Women and Pensions in Italy: Gender Imbalances and the Equalization of Retirement Age
This paper examines the age at retirement for men and women in Italy. Despite the expansion of women's educational attainments, they still display lower employment rates, are frequently engaged in involuntary part-time jobs and have more fragmented careers. As a consequence, the mean age at which women receive a pension is higher than that of men. Using Labour Force Survey (2006 and 2012), the authors test the hypothesis that women's higher age a…
Organization matters. Policy entrepreneurship among Street-Level Bureaucrats in public employment services. Insights from an Italian case-study
In this paper we seek to overcome the knowledge gap in street-level bureaucracy (SLB) literature on labour market policies, focusing on a specific public employment service (PES). In the context of active labour market policies (ALMP), PES are seen as strategic because they have a direct effect on reducing unemployment in both the short and long run and an indirect effect on reinforcing long-term training programmes. However, recent reforms of pu…
When the workplace is the home: Labour Inspectors’ Discretionary Power in the Field of Domestic Work – An Institutional Analysis
This article builds on previous studies concerning the question of street-level bureaucracy, an expression coined by Lipsky (1980) – Street-Level Bureaucracy. Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services (New York: Russel Sage Foundation) – to highlight the importance of the discretionary power that professionals in public agencies exercise during the implementation of laws, standards and guidelines. Discretion may depend on the need to compromi…
Young adult occupational transition regimes in Europe: Does gender matter
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to achieve a greater understanding of the transitions young adults experience into and out of the labour market and the influence that gender and married/cohabiting status have on employment careers. Design/methodology/approach The paper focuses on young adults (25-34 years old) in four European countries – Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and Norway – that are representative of different youth transition regime…
Activation, Employability, and Recent Trends in Labour Policies: A Comparison of the Italian and German Cases
The aim of this paper is to describe and compare activation policies in two European countries, Italy and Germany. After a short discussion of the mainstream literature on the new employability policy paradigm, the evolution of activation policies are reconstructed in detail, in relation to three very specific policy domains: flexibility and deregulation in the labour market, reorganisation of the placement system and unemployment benefits reform…
Femmes et travail: Représentations du féminin et politiques de conciliation travail-vie. L'exemple italien
Important changes have characterized the social and economic role of women. For the latter paid work has become a fundamental part of their life. Yet such important changes have not corroded a division of labour that assigns to them highly informal responsibilities, generating in many cases conflicts between family and work activity. The present article is focused on Italy and proves the stability of the gender division of labour mentioned above.…
The Relationship between Economics and Sociology: The Contribution of Economic Sociology, Setting out from the Problem of Embeddedness
This essay aims to analyse the most recent acquisitions in economic sociology, setting out from the problem of embeddedness. Firstly, the contribution offered by Mark Granovetter shall be illustrated, demonstrating how the interpretation proposed by this scholar is concentrated on a structural–relational perspective that tends to trace the explanation of economic phenomena to a theory of social networks. In order to enrich and integrate this appr…
Sociologia Del Iavoro n. 84, 2002: FrancoAngeli Editore, Milano Employment Policies: A Comparative Frame
When the workplace is the home: Labour Inspectors’ Discretionary Power in the Field of Domestic Work – An Institutional Analysis
This article builds on previous studies concerning the question of street-level bureaucracy, an expression coined by Lipsky (1980) – Street-Level Bureaucracy. Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services (New York: Russel Sage Foundation) – to highlight the importance of the discretionary power that professionals in public agencies exercise during the implementation of laws, standards and guidelines. Discretion may depend on the need to compromi…
Organization matters. Policy entrepreneurship among Street-Level Bureaucrats in public employment services. Insights from an Italian case-study
In this paper we seek to overcome the knowledge gap in street-level bureaucracy (SLB) literature on labour market policies, focusing on a specific public employment service (PES). In the context of active labour market policies (ALMP), PES are seen as strategic because they have a direct effect on reducing unemployment in both the short and long run and an indirect effect on reinforcing long-term training programmes. However, recent reforms of pu…
Italy and Spain at a crossroads: The politics of active social policies in southern Europe under a gender perspective
Purpose The article explores to what extent party politics has influenced the different trajectories in Spain and Italy in terms of gendered active social policies (ASPs) (i.e. ALMPs and WLBPs). Second, it investigates how social and political modernization in the two countries has facilitated or hindered party competition on gendered ASPs. Design/methodology/approach To investigate to what extent parties support gendered ASPs, the article relies…
Occupational Gender Segregation and Mental Health among Professionals: Women's Risk Exposure in Five Micro Classes
This study explores the intricate interplay between gender, occupation, and mental health using data from the 2020 EU-LFS ad hoc module on 38,066 female professionals in Western Europe. We examine their exposure to work-related risks impacting mental health, focusing on variables such as work overload, violence, and challenging client interactions. Our primary objective is to discern how various occupations contribute to distinct experiences of w…
The Relationship between Economics and Sociology: The Contribution of Economic Sociology, Setting out from the Problem of Embeddedness
This essay aims to analyse the most recent acquisitions in economic sociology, setting out from the problem of embeddedness. Firstly, the contribution offered by Mark Granovetter shall be illustrated, demonstrating how the interpretation proposed by this scholar is concentrated on a structural–relational perspective that tends to trace the explanation of economic phenomena to a theory of social networks. In order to enrich and integrate this appr…
Sociologia Del Iavoro n. 84, 2002: FrancoAngeli Editore, Milano Employment Policies: A Comparative Frame
The Relationship between Economics and Sociology: The Contribution of Economic Sociology, Setting out from the Problem of Embeddedness
This essay aims to analyse the most recent acquisitions in economic sociology, setting out from the problem of embeddedness. Firstly, the contribution offered by Mark Granovetter shall be illustrated, demonstrating how the interpretation proposed by this scholar is concentrated on a structural–relational perspective that tends to trace the explanation of economic phenomena to a theory of social networks. In order to enrich and integrate this appr…
Femmes et travail: Représentations du féminin et politiques de conciliation travail-vie. L'exemple italien
Important changes have characterized the social and economic role of women. For the latter paid work has become a fundamental part of their life. Yet such important changes have not corroded a division of labour that assigns to them highly informal responsibilities, generating in many cases conflicts between family and work activity. The present article is focused on Italy and proves the stability of the gender division of labour mentioned above.…
Activation, Employability, and Recent Trends in Labour Policies: A Comparison of the Italian and German Cases
The aim of this paper is to describe and compare activation policies in two European countries, Italy and Germany. After a short discussion of the mainstream literature on the new employability policy paradigm, the evolution of activation policies are reconstructed in detail, in relation to three very specific policy domains: flexibility and deregulation in the labour market, reorganisation of the placement system and unemployment benefits reform…
Young adult occupational transition regimes in Europe: Does gender matter
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to achieve a greater understanding of the transitions young adults experience into and out of the labour market and the influence that gender and married/cohabiting status have on employment careers. Design/methodology/approach The paper focuses on young adults (25-34 years old) in four European countries – Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and Norway – that are representative of different youth transition regime…
Who receives occupational welfare? The importance of skills across Europe’s diverse industrial relations regimes
This study investigates the association between eligibility for occupational welfare and employees’ skill levels. In particular, building on Visser’s classification, we explore (i) the extent to which this relationship is moderated by industrial relations regimes and (ii) whether the moderating effect of industrial relations regimes has changed over time. Analyses draw on the latest three waves (2005, 2010, 2015) of the European Working Condition…
How Stable is Dualisation? The Case of Labour Market and Antipoverty Policies in Italy
This article analyses the old and new dualisation processes that have emerged in Italy in the last twenty years. By focusing on the dualising outcomes of labour market and antipoverty policies, it addresses the trajectories followed by dualisa-tion and their effects on the divides between insiders and outsiders. Within this framework it is argued that dualisation is not a stable equilibrium, but rather the result of the interconnections between i…
Women and Pensions in Italy: Gender Imbalances and the Equalization of Retirement Age
This paper examines the age at retirement for men and women in Italy. Despite the expansion of women's educational attainments, they still display lower employment rates, are frequently engaged in involuntary part-time jobs and have more fragmented careers. As a consequence, the mean age at which women receive a pension is higher than that of men. Using Labour Force Survey (2006 and 2012), the authors test the hypothesis that women's higher age a…
Organization matters. Policy entrepreneurship among Street-Level Bureaucrats in public employment services. Insights from an Italian case-study
In this paper we seek to overcome the knowledge gap in street-level bureaucracy (SLB) literature on labour market policies, focusing on a specific public employment service (PES). In the context of active labour market policies (ALMP), PES are seen as strategic because they have a direct effect on reducing unemployment in both the short and long run and an indirect effect on reinforcing long-term training programmes. However, recent reforms of pu…
When the workplace is the home: Labour Inspectors’ Discretionary Power in the Field of Domestic Work – An Institutional Analysis
This article builds on previous studies concerning the question of street-level bureaucracy, an expression coined by Lipsky (1980) – Street-Level Bureaucracy. Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services (New York: Russel Sage Foundation) – to highlight the importance of the discretionary power that professionals in public agencies exercise during the implementation of laws, standards and guidelines. Discretion may depend on the need to compromi…
Italy and Spain at a crossroads: The politics of active social policies in southern Europe under a gender perspective
Purpose The article explores to what extent party politics has influenced the different trajectories in Spain and Italy in terms of gendered active social policies (ASPs) (i.e. ALMPs and WLBPs). Second, it investigates how social and political modernization in the two countries has facilitated or hindered party competition on gendered ASPs. Design/methodology/approach To investigate to what extent parties support gendered ASPs, the article relies…
Bridging gaps: How investment in public childcare affects women’s employment in Italy and Spain
This paper aims to establish whether, and to what extent, an increase in the public provision of early childhood education and care services (ECEC) has had a positive effect on women’s participation in the labour market in Italy and Spain. It does so by compiling panel data using microdata from the European Labour Force Survey (2006–2018), together with secondary sources of information on public ECEC investment made in the two countries. After co…
Occupational Gender Segregation and Mental Health among Professionals: Women's Risk Exposure in Five Micro Classes
This study explores the intricate interplay between gender, occupation, and mental health using data from the 2020 EU-LFS ad hoc module on 38,066 female professionals in Western Europe. We examine their exposure to work-related risks impacting mental health, focusing on variables such as work overload, violence, and challenging client interactions. Our primary objective is to discern how various occupations contribute to distinct experiences of w…
Job Insecurity and Life Courses. By SoniaBertolini, ValentinaGoglio, and DirkHofäcker, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2024
The author declares no conflicts of interest. Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.
Subsidising silence: How policy ideas entrench Italy’s use of employment subsidies
Italy’s active labour market policy (ALMP) regime is marked by a paradox: despite limited investment in training, job placement services, and direct job creation, the country allocates above-average resources to employment subsidies. While this subsidy-heavy approach is often explained by the structure of Italy’s low-skill, low-productivity economy, this article proposes a complementary explanation grounded in political economy. We argue that the…
Experiencing a Serious Game for the Norman Castle of Aci Castello: A Pilot Project
Cultural heritage, in all its tangible and intangible expressions, is undergoing a process of renewal driven by the integration of digital technologies and participatory approaches. This study presents a pilot project developed within the SAMOTHRACE Fundation, focused on the design of a Serious Game dedicated to the Norman Castle of Aci Castello in Sicily. The project explores how game-based learning and interactive storytelling can enhance visit…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (4 works)