Italy’s draft 2019 September Budget Law, which will enter into force in January 2019, has been defined as a “courageous manoeuvre” for change by the political forces which have designed and implemented it very recently. Indeed, it may indeed take much courage to introduce a measure of basic income (the so-called ‘reddito di cittadinanza’) which […]
About Valeria Pulignano and Andrea Ciarini
Valeria Pulignano is Professor of Sociology of Work and Industrial Relations at the KU Leuven (Belgium). She heads the research group Employment Relations and Labour Markets. Her research interests include comparative European industrial relations and labour markets. Andrea Ciarini is assistant professor at the Department of Social and Economic Sciences of the Sapienza University of Rome, where he teaches Economic Sociology. His main research interests are in the fields of comparative welfare studies, labour market policies and industrial relations.