GSSI Social Sciences

🎊Congrats to our PhD alumna Thea Jansen for winning the Tommaso Fasciani Award for her doctoral thesis "Remote Work as a Catalyst for Change: Implications for Residential Mobility, Family Planning, and Female Employment" (supervised by Andrea Ascani, @pfaggy.bsky.social, @sandoralp.bsky.social)

Air pollution and workplace accidents: Evidence and implications We estimate the impact of air pollution on workplace accidents and permanent disabilities in Italy, a setting characterized by stringent air pollution…

🆕 paper in the @jpube.bsky.social by @sandoralp.bsky.social (w Depalo Domenico & Gabriele Curci).
“Air Pollution and Workplace Accidents: Evidence and Implications” uses Italy to measure what happens to accident rates when air quality gets worse.
Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎉👏We are proud to announce that our PhD student Giulia Finardi has been selected for the 2026 Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Young Scientists Programme (YSP) — a prestigious initiative supporting and empowering the next generation of disaster risk reduction experts

📚🗓 Save the date:  Presentazione del libro 'Sviluppo territoriale e valorizzazione dei patrimoni locali: il caso dell’Abruzzo aquilano post-terremoto' di Giovanni Baiocchetti

🗓 13-12-2025 h:16:00
📍 GSSI, viale Crispi 7, L’Aquila

Modera @pfaggy.bsky.social

we are hiring🔊🔊
2️⃣ Research Contracts in Regional Science & Economic Geography within our Department (duration 2 years)👩‍💻 🧑‍💻

⏳ Application deadline: 12 January 2026
🔗 call alboufficiale.gssi.it/download/106...
🔗 Link to the application platform in the image below.

🆕 paper 📚 by @giubreglia.bsky.social & @mrmodica.bsky.social out in @regionalstudies.bsky.social “A world of shocks: mapping multi-shock and multilayer resilience, assessing resilience markers and drivers”.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

If you have any questions, please contact
joel.cuatianquis@gssi.it

🚨 CfA – PhD & Early Career Workshop 2026
Regional Inequalities & Perceived Left-Behindness (w @regstud.bsky.social, Young Scholar Initiative & Edgenet)

📅 11–13/05 2026 | 📍 L’Aquila, Italy
Keynote speakers: @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social @simonaiammarino.bsky.social @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social

Serve una strategia contro la crisi sociale L’intervento

Ugo Rossi analyzes the social and economic vulnerabilities facing the Campania region in a recent piece for La Repubblica.

napoli.repubblica.it/commenti/202...

They find:
📝 Previous employment experience and proficiency in Italian are crucial
🧠Many refugees suffer professional downgrading
🧳Settlement patterns of refugees and long-term Ukrainian immigrants notably differ across Italian regions

Read the paper 👇
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🆕 paper out in our Discussion Paper Series 'Labour market integration of Ukrainian refugees in Italy’ 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 by @kateryna-tkach.bsky.social @pfaggy.bsky.social & Alessandra Michelangeli

They use new data to provide new findings the geography of employment and skills of Ukrainian refugees in Italy.

Welcome to our new cohort of PhD students 🥳🤩

Il Centro dedica una lunga intervista a @pfaggy.bsky.social sullo stato dell’economia dell’Abruzzo e sulle strategie per favorirne ulteriormente lo sviluppo economico puntando su giovani, qualità istituzionale, salari e FDI

We're thrilled to announce our upcoming seminar lineup for November 2025 - May 2026.
We will host distinguished researchers from leading institutions across Europe to engage with cutting-edge scholarship and foster academic exchange.
We look forward to an enriching series of discussions

Settegiorni - Parlamento - Rai Parlamento Settegiorni - Video - RaiPlay

. @pfaggy.bsky.social was featured on Rai Settegiorni program to discuss which socioeconomic characteristics and policies make places attractive for young, educated people, and how to reverse Italy's human capital drain 🧠 🧳 .

👀 👉 www.raiplay.it/video/2025/1...

Last week @giubreglia.bsky.social & Aydan Ege Güven were among the presenters at the Università degli Studi Roma Tre ERICE Workshop.
Their contributions dealt with
resilience complexity & the geography of critical Infrastructure

YouTube video by TV SEI IN FUGA - SPOILER 3.10.25

. @pfaggy.bsky.social è stata ospite di Spoiler su TV6 per parlare di ‘Giovani in fuga dall’Abruzzo e giovani in fuga verso l’Abruzzo’

La puntata ha affrontato i temi della fuga dei cervelli e dell’attrattività della regione per le giovani generazioni 🧠🧳

📺 youtu.be/UdgHuN6YSWY?...

Day 1 of the 8th ASC conference with keynote lectures by Philip McCann & Chiara Farronato and paper sessions on climate change 🌪️, institutions🏛️, development , AI & digitalization 💻

Key findings:
✅ Knowledge economy reduces pro-environmental activism 2x more than anti-environmental activism
✅ Green transition should focus on how economic contexts shape mobilization
✅ Challenge isn't just resistance in vulnerable areas, but also reduced collective action in knowledge hubs

🆕 paper in our DP series 'Green with Anger. Polarised environmental mobilisation & the knowledge economy' (Compagnucci, @dariadenti.bsky.social @pfaggy.bsky.social , Perrot)

tinyurl.com/5xt6e3md

Sul quotidiano Il Centro @pfaggy.bsky.social parla delle attuali criticità legate all’erosione del potere d’acquisto delle famiglie italiane e alle soluzioni possibili

High-speed railway and city industrial upgrading in China: A quasi-experimental study This paper investigates the effect of High-speed Railway (HSR) on city industrial upgrading. Using the Annual Survey of Industrial Firms (1998–2015) a…

In a 🆕 paper in Applied Geography, Andrea Ascani and Yibo Qiao explore the role of high-speed railway in helping the industrial upgrading of cities in the context of China.

Read it here (OA): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cities for living. Identifying the local conditions driving life satisfaction in European cities This paper analyses differences in life satisfaction across European cities. It contributes to the geography of well-being literature by identifying the individual and the contextual factors that e...

🆕 paper in Regional Studies, Regional Science by @pven.bsky.social & Nicola Pontarollo 🏙️ 🇪🇺
"Cities for living" finds that environmental quality & social diversity matter more than economic indicators for city liveability
Read the paper www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🆕 paper in our DP Series by Maria Giovanna Brandano & @martidalmolin.bsky.social shows walking routes boost economic growth in Italy 🇮🇹
They found walking-paths slow tourism has significant economic impact.
An alternative to mass tourism that benefits local communities.

www.gssi.it/images/discu...

🆕 paper out in the Journal of Rural Studies by our PhD candidate Borys Cieślak

He studied the emotional-caring labor of postmasters in the Appennines to shows they help enhance wellbeing, & belonging among rural communities. 📯⛰️

More here doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...

Thematic Encyclopedia of Regional Science This thematic Encyclopedia explores the multifaceted world of regional science, presenting a systematic and coherent overview of its central topics. It highlights the interdisciplinary nature of the f...

📚🆕 Thematic Encyclopedia of Regional Science is out w contributions from our members @giubreglia.bsky.social , Carlo Caporali, @dariadenti.bsky.social, @pfaggy.bsky.social & @mrmodica.bsky.social 🌍​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

More ➡️ www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the...

🎒🌍 Our PhD students are taking research global!
@crhistianjoel.bsky.social presented his inequality work at #ECINEQ2025 in Washington & Giulia Finardi is at Fudan University’s @wmo-global.bsky.social climate change summer school in Shanghai 🎓​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Our PhD Student Aydan Ege Güven Ege Güven presented her research titled “Critical Infrastructures and Their Role in Regional Resilience: Mapping EU Regions” 🌉🛤️🇪🇺 at the AESOP - Association of European Schools of Planning Annual Congress held this year in Istanbul.

Midsize Settlements in Europe: Definition, Population Trends, and Contribution to Regional Development This paper analyses population trends across Europe at a fine spatial resolution from 2011 to 2021, focusing on midsize settlements (cities and towns with 5000–250,000 inhabitants) and their surround...

🆕 paper in the Journal of Regional Science by @pven.bsky.com (w D. Burgalassi & A. Weingarden).
‘Middlesize Settlements in Europe: Definition, Population Trends, and Contribution to Regional Development.

👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My new working paper (with Marco Modica) is out!
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