Education and employment
IP204 (former IP4)
Project leader: Rafael Lalive
Co-leader: Michele Pellizzari
IP204 proposes a research programme to improve our understanding of the factors affecting the employment outcomes for individuals in potentially vulnerable states: job seekers, mothers of new-born children, teenagers and young adults entering working life as well as mature adults with vocational education. In so doing, we take a life-course perspective focusing on processes of accumulation of (dis-)advantages, with a window of analysis that stretches from the short to the long term. We also pay particular attention to the resources that individuals have and evaluate social policies that aim to deal with vulnerability.
During Phase 1 (2011-2014), this project was entitled "Economic inequalities: Towards pathways out of vulnerability" (IP4)
Team:
Prof. Giuliano Bonoli, Prof. Mauro Cherubini, Prof. Daniel Oesch, Prof. Michele Pellizzari, Prof. José Ramirez, Prof. Martina Viarengo
Dr. Julie Falcon, Dr. Joelle Latina, Dr. Giannina Vaccaro
PhD Students:
Lionel Cottier, Maria Soledad Fernandez, Kalaivani Karunanethy, Mailys Korber, Fabienne Liechti, Patrick McDonald
Research assistants:
Hélène Benghalem, Gabriela Villalobos Zuniga
Junior SNSF Researcher:
Alessandro Di Nallo
News published on IP204
- The Swiss middle class is not in decline, it is growing fast
- People on social welfare are not necessarily lost to the job market
- Keeping in touch with former colleagues is a good strategy to get out of unemployment
- A PhD thesis on the plight of older job seekers is now being published in book form
- Utilizing networks to find employment? Social networks as a labour market integration tool for unemployed and disadvantaged people
- Climbing the social ladder is as difficult nowadays as it was several decades ago
- Unemployment hurts senior jobseekers more. Can a good social network offset this disadvantage?
- Factorial Survey Designs in Labor Market Research: joint workshop NCCR On the Move & NCCR LIVES
- Delaying the age of tracking does not facilitate educational pathways
- Discussing job insecurity and occupational change, PhD student got confidence and a position
- Social Investment: Lions facing the Matthew effect while dreaming of being butterflies
- Tackling inequalities at source or perpetuating them: social investment strategy debated
- Results of a study on the use of personal networks presented to the Regional Employment Offices
- Publication of a book on active social policy in Europe
- There is no habituation effect with unemployment, quite the opposite
- 5 shut down Swiss companies used as a case study on unemployment
- Looking at the social networks of unemployed people in Vaud
Publications
Selected publications

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