Ilaria Madama
Biographic Data
| ID | 4159650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ilaria Madama |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ilaria |
| FAMILY NAME | Madama |
| SIGNATURE | MADAMA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6117-072X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Supporting Young Adults’ Life Choices: A Longitudinal Perspective on the Role of Welfare Effort Across Crises
Young adults’ life choices and patterns of their permanence in the parental house are extraordinarily heterogeneous across European countries. What is the role of the welfare state in accounting for such diversity and how has it changed over time? This article addresses these questions by relying on regression models covering 31 European countries over the period 2005–2022. Deploying age-sensitive welfare effort measures, the study provides fresh…
Unpacking the globalization-welfare nexus. A meta-analysis of comparative evidence, mechanisms and effects of openness on social spending
The article engages with the comparative literature on the highly debated globalization-welfare nexus by conducting an extended meta-analysis on the relationship between openness and social spending. By means of a series of meta-regressions, we investigate methodological and substantive elements responsible for the heterogeneity of the empirical findings, and the support for the opposite compensation and efficiency hypotheses. Amongst others, our…
All in, against all odds. Path shift in family policy via cross‐party agreement: The case of the Single Universal Allowance reform in Italy
The introduction of the Single Universal Child Allowance in 2021 marked a sharp turning point in Italian family policy. Presented as a major revolution aimed at combating the country's alarmingly low birth rates as well as child poverty, the reform was also meant to rationalise the benefits system while overcoming the historical fragmentation and uneven protection granted to families. Against this backdrop, the article contributes to the literatu…
What if? Using counterfactuals to evaluate the effects of structural labour market reforms: Evidence from the Italian Jobs Act
The article assesses the impact of the Jobs Act, the labour market reform passed in Italy under Matteo Renzi’s cabinet in 2014–2015. In doing so, the study has a twofold aim. First, it contributes to the scholarly debate on labour market flexibilization, offering fresh empirical evidence about the debated effects of deregulatory reforms on employment performance. Second, our empirical investigation relies on an innovative approach, the synthetic …
Fighting Poverty and Social Exclusion in the EU: A Chance in Europe 2020
The right(s) and minimum income in hard times: Southern and Eastern Europe compared
The paper addresses a topic still largely under-researched in comparative welfare state literature: the role of right parties in the reform of last resort safety nets. More precisely, the study investigates minimum income schemes’ reforms promoted during the Great Recession (2008–2013) by centre-right governments in three countries belonging to the European periphery: Italy, Portugal and Latvia. Despite common political orientation and increased …
Understanding convergence and divergence: Old and new cleavages in the politics of minimum income schemes in Italy and Poland
Italy and Poland present similarly weak minimum income protection models, yet this results from two different policy trajectories in the last 15 years: both countries actually introduced a minimum income scheme (MIS) between the late 1990s (Italy) and the early 2000s (Poland), but later developments were characterized by policy reversal in the Italian case vis-à-vis institutionalization in Poland. The paper therefore addresses two intertwined puz…
Beyond continuity? Italian social assistance policies between institutional opportunities and agency
Madama I. Beyond continuity? Italian social assistance policies between institutional opportunities and agency The article addresses recent developments of social assistance policies in Italy with two interpretative aims. The first regards the approval of the long‐awaited framework law in 2000 and deals with the factors that made a path‐shifting national reform possible in a policy sector which had evolved through successive accretions and gradua…
Selective Flexicurity' in Segmented Labour Markets: The Case of Italian 'Mid-Siders
The article is focused on the analysis of flexicurity arrangements in the Italian case with a twofold aim. The first aim is substantive: analysing and evaluating recent labour market reforms in Italy with particular reference to the possible emergence of a new flexicurity model. The second goal is to contribute to the debate on labour market development and flexicurity by enriching and refining the available analytical tools. More specifically, w…
Selective Flexicurity' in Segmented Labour Markets: The Case of Italian 'Mid-Siders
The article is focused on the analysis of flexicurity arrangements in the Italian case with a twofold aim. The first aim is substantive: analysing and evaluating recent labour market reforms in Italy with particular reference to the possible emergence of a new flexicurity model. The second goal is to contribute to the debate on labour market development and flexicurity by enriching and refining the available analytical tools. More specifically, w…
Understanding convergence and divergence: Old and new cleavages in the politics of minimum income schemes in Italy and Poland
Italy and Poland present similarly weak minimum income protection models, yet this results from two different policy trajectories in the last 15 years: both countries actually introduced a minimum income scheme (MIS) between the late 1990s (Italy) and the early 2000s (Poland), but later developments were characterized by policy reversal in the Italian case vis-à-vis institutionalization in Poland. The paper therefore addresses two intertwined puz…
The right(s) and minimum income in hard times: Southern and Eastern Europe compared
The paper addresses a topic still largely under-researched in comparative welfare state literature: the role of right parties in the reform of last resort safety nets. More precisely, the study investigates minimum income schemes’ reforms promoted during the Great Recession (2008–2013) by centre-right governments in three countries belonging to the European periphery: Italy, Portugal and Latvia. Despite common political orientation and increased …
Beyond continuity? Italian social assistance policies between institutional opportunities and agency
Madama I. Beyond continuity? Italian social assistance policies between institutional opportunities and agency The article addresses recent developments of social assistance policies in Italy with two interpretative aims. The first regards the approval of the long‐awaited framework law in 2000 and deals with the factors that made a path‐shifting national reform possible in a policy sector which had evolved through successive accretions and gradua…
Unpacking the globalization-welfare nexus. A meta-analysis of comparative evidence, mechanisms and effects of openness on social spending
The article engages with the comparative literature on the highly debated globalization-welfare nexus by conducting an extended meta-analysis on the relationship between openness and social spending. By means of a series of meta-regressions, we investigate methodological and substantive elements responsible for the heterogeneity of the empirical findings, and the support for the opposite compensation and efficiency hypotheses. Amongst others, our…
All in, against all odds. Path shift in family policy via cross‐party agreement: The case of the Single Universal Allowance reform in Italy
The introduction of the Single Universal Child Allowance in 2021 marked a sharp turning point in Italian family policy. Presented as a major revolution aimed at combating the country's alarmingly low birth rates as well as child poverty, the reform was also meant to rationalise the benefits system while overcoming the historical fragmentation and uneven protection granted to families. Against this backdrop, the article contributes to the literatu…
Selective Flexicurity' in Segmented Labour Markets: The Case of Italian 'Mid-Siders
The article is focused on the analysis of flexicurity arrangements in the Italian case with a twofold aim. The first aim is substantive: analysing and evaluating recent labour market reforms in Italy with particular reference to the possible emergence of a new flexicurity model. The second goal is to contribute to the debate on labour market development and flexicurity by enriching and refining the available analytical tools. More specifically, w…
Beyond continuity? Italian social assistance policies between institutional opportunities and agency
Madama I. Beyond continuity? Italian social assistance policies between institutional opportunities and agency The article addresses recent developments of social assistance policies in Italy with two interpretative aims. The first regards the approval of the long‐awaited framework law in 2000 and deals with the factors that made a path‐shifting national reform possible in a policy sector which had evolved through successive accretions and gradua…
Understanding convergence and divergence: Old and new cleavages in the politics of minimum income schemes in Italy and Poland
Italy and Poland present similarly weak minimum income protection models, yet this results from two different policy trajectories in the last 15 years: both countries actually introduced a minimum income scheme (MIS) between the late 1990s (Italy) and the early 2000s (Poland), but later developments were characterized by policy reversal in the Italian case vis-à-vis institutionalization in Poland. The paper therefore addresses two intertwined puz…
Fighting Poverty and Social Exclusion in the EU: A Chance in Europe 2020
The right(s) and minimum income in hard times: Southern and Eastern Europe compared
The paper addresses a topic still largely under-researched in comparative welfare state literature: the role of right parties in the reform of last resort safety nets. More precisely, the study investigates minimum income schemes’ reforms promoted during the Great Recession (2008–2013) by centre-right governments in three countries belonging to the European periphery: Italy, Portugal and Latvia. Despite common political orientation and increased …
What if? Using counterfactuals to evaluate the effects of structural labour market reforms: Evidence from the Italian Jobs Act
The article assesses the impact of the Jobs Act, the labour market reform passed in Italy under Matteo Renzi’s cabinet in 2014–2015. In doing so, the study has a twofold aim. First, it contributes to the scholarly debate on labour market flexibilization, offering fresh empirical evidence about the debated effects of deregulatory reforms on employment performance. Second, our empirical investigation relies on an innovative approach, the synthetic …
All in, against all odds. Path shift in family policy via cross‐party agreement: The case of the Single Universal Allowance reform in Italy
The introduction of the Single Universal Child Allowance in 2021 marked a sharp turning point in Italian family policy. Presented as a major revolution aimed at combating the country's alarmingly low birth rates as well as child poverty, the reform was also meant to rationalise the benefits system while overcoming the historical fragmentation and uneven protection granted to families. Against this backdrop, the article contributes to the literatu…
Unpacking the globalization-welfare nexus. A meta-analysis of comparative evidence, mechanisms and effects of openness on social spending
The article engages with the comparative literature on the highly debated globalization-welfare nexus by conducting an extended meta-analysis on the relationship between openness and social spending. By means of a series of meta-regressions, we investigate methodological and substantive elements responsible for the heterogeneity of the empirical findings, and the support for the opposite compensation and efficiency hypotheses. Amongst others, our…
Supporting Young Adults’ Life Choices: A Longitudinal Perspective on the Role of Welfare Effort Across Crises
Young adults’ life choices and patterns of their permanence in the parental house are extraordinarily heterogeneous across European countries. What is the role of the welfare state in accounting for such diversity and how has it changed over time? This article addresses these questions by relying on regression models covering 31 European countries over the period 2005–2022. Deploying age-sensitive welfare effort measures, the study provides fresh…
Economics (9 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)