SCALISE GEMMA

Gemma Scalise, PhD in Sociology, is Associate Professor in Economic Sociology at the University of Milan Bicocca, Department of Sociology and Social Research.

She has been Assistant Professor at the University of Milan-Bicocca (2021-2023) University of Bergamo (2019-2020), Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (2017-2019), Visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Koln (2019) and at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2015).  

She is member of the Editorial Board of  SAGE journal "Sociology",  and Principal Investigator of the Project CITILab "Compound inequalities and labour market outsiders" funded by Fondazione Cariplo https://citilab.unimib.it.

Among her recent publications: 

2022, Between structure and agency: the use of conditional welfare through the lens of social capital, European Societies, DOI:10.1080/14616696.2022.2137553

2022, Subnational Social Investment in Three European Cities: An Exploratory Comparison, in Journal of Social Policy, 1-21 (with Anton Hemerjick)

2022, Labour market dualization and social policy in pandemic times: an in-depth analysis of private consumption services in Europe, in International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy (with Pavolini, E., Fullin, G.)

2022, Welfare States, Labor Markets, Social Investment and the Digital Transformation, in Busemeyer, M., Kemmerling A., Marx P., Van Kerspergen K. (eds. 2021) Digitalization and the welfare state, Oxford University Press (with W. Eichhorst e A. Hemerijck)

2021, The local governance of active inclusion: A field for social partner action, in European Journal of Industrial Relations, 27 (1) 59-75

2021, Following Different Modernization Paths. The Changing Socio-cultural Basis of Southern Europe, in Burroni, L., Pavolini, E., Regini, M. (eds. 2021), Mediterranean Capitalism Revised: One Model, Different Trajectiories, Cornell University Press (with E. Pavolini)

2020, The political economy of policy ideas. The European strategy of Active Inclusion in context. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan; 

2020, Industrial relations and migrant integration in European cities: a comparative perspective, in Journal of European Social Policy, 30, 3, pp. 587-600 (with L. Burroni); 

2019, Policy failure in the triangle of growth: labour market, human capital and innovation in Spain and Italy, in South European Society and Politics, 24,1, pp.29-52 (with L. Burroni, A. Gherardini)