The four-day workweek has gained global attention and popularity, with supporters arguing it can improve several conditions, such as productivity, job creation, and the environment. Small-scale pilot programmes are being …
The public debate regularly depicts the middle class as the victim of employment polarization and income stagnation. This narrative of a squeezed middle class suggests that people both above and below fared better in terms …
A handful of studies from individual countries have shown that parents of Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR)-conceived children are more likely to have, relative to parents of naturally conceived (NC) children, higher …
Real Utopias for a Social Europe consists of technical debate-type workshops on various bold and innovative social policy proposals…
The WHO estimates that around 186 million individuals live with infertility. Although the drivers of infertility are varied and complex, it is linked to the postponement of childbearing in Western countries, and unsafe abortions …
This paper studies income distribution and inequality in Germany, Spain and Italy by applying the approach described in Fana and Villani (2022a). This framework provides a novel classification of labourers and capitalists that …
The rise of new technologies has been a defining feature of advanced capitalist countries over the last decades, reigniting concerns about the future of work, rising inequality, and technological …
What policies do individuals prefer in response to the labor market risks related to the ongoing processes of digitalization and automation? To what extent does being exposed to different forms of “technological risk” condition …
The self-interest approach to preferences for redistribution draws upon the idea that socio-economic conditions influence policy preferences via personal interests. Following this principle, a burgeoning interdisciplinary literature …
This document summarises the highlights of the Seminar Series of the Social Classes in the Digital Age (DigClass) Project held between October 2021 and June 2022…