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Research summary
Alessio Fusco holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France). He has joined LISER in 2005 as an assistant professor in the IMPALLA programme. In 2008, he moved in the Living Conditions department where he was appointed head of the 'Income, Wealth and Poverty' research unit in 2013. In 2017-2018, he was acting Head of the Living Conditions Department. His research interests are on applied microeconomic topics related to the analysis of inequality, poverty and social assistance and on the measurement of various concepts such as multiple deprivation, income polarization or social polarization. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Economics Letters, Economic Modelling, The European Journal of Health Economics, The Journal of Economic Psychology, The Journal of Happiness Studies or Research on Economic Inequality. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the project 'Investigating the Mechanisms of Reliance to Social Assistance' (IMeRSe) funded by the Luxembourg National Research Funds (FNR). Previously, he has been in charge of another FNR-funded project on 'the dynamics and persistence of poverty in Luxembourg' (PersiPov) and he participated to several EU-funded research projects about the measurement of material deprivation in Europe (Net-SILC) or the impact of growing inequalities on the society (GINI).
Education/Academic qualification
Economics and business, PhD
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Projects
DRIVEN: Data-driven computational modelling and applications
Fusco, A., Beex, L., Billieux, J., Bordas, S., D'Ambrosio, C., Del Sol, A., Francis, O., Hale, J., Pang, J., Peters, B., Sauter, T., Skupin, A., Theobald, M., Tkatchenko, A., Van Dam, T., Viti, F., Vögele, C. & Zilian, A.
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Fonds National de la Recherche-FNR
1/09/18 → 31/08/25
Project: Research
PREFER-ME: Preference for Redistribution, Equality and Fainess in Europe and in the Greater Region: Micro-Evidence from Surveys
Andreoli, F., Olivera, J., Sologon, D., Fusco, A., Van Kerm, P. & Rueda, D.
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Fonds National de la Recherche-FNR
1/04/18 → 31/03/21
Project: Research
InGRID-2: Integrating Research Infrastructure for European expertise on Inclusive Growth from data to policy
Liegeois, P., Andreoli, F., Bia, M., Bousch, P., Dumet, P., Fusco, A., Genevois, A., Klein, O., Marlier, E. & Van Kerm, P.
1/05/17 → 30/04/21
Project: Research
IMeRSe: Investigating the Mechanisms of Reliance to Social Assistance
Fusco, A., Van Kerm, P., Tenikue, M., Dautel, V., Misangumukini, N. & Girardi, S.
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Fonds National de la Recherche-FNR
1/09/16 → 31/08/19
Project: Research
Net-SILC3: Third EU-Silc Network on Income and Living Conditions
Marlier, E., Andreoli, F., Bouvy, I., Fusco, A., Guio, A., Marlier, E. & Van Kerm, P.
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), European Commission
1/04/16 → 31/03/20
Project: Research
Research Output
Activation during the pandemic downturn
Girardi, S., Fusco, A. & Pulignano, V., 29 Jul 2020Research output: Other contribution
BIPOLAR: Stata module to calculate four measures of income bi-polarization
Fusco, A. & Van Kerm, P., May 2020, Boston College Department of Economics.Research output: Other contribution
Open Access
Economic effects of Covid-19 in Luxembourg: First RECOV id working note with preliminary estimates.
Beine, M., Bertoli, S., Chen, S., D'Ambrosio, C., Docquier, F., Dupuy, A., Fusco, A., Girardi, S., Haas, T., Islam, N., Koulovatianos, C., Leduc, K., Lorentz, N., Machado, J., Muller, A., Peluso, E., Peroni, C., Picard, P., Pieretti, P., Rapoport, H. & 8 others, , 8 Apr 2020, Luxembourg: LISER, 54 p. (First RECOV id working note ).Research output: Working paper
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Economic effects of Covid-19 in Luxembourg: Synthesis of the RECOV id working note
Beine, M., Bertoli, S., Chen, S., D'Ambrosio, C., Docquier, F., Dupuy, A., Fusco, A., Girardi, S., Haas, T., Islam, N., Koulovatianos, C., Leduc, K., Lorentz, N., Machado, J., Muller, A., Peluso, E., Peroni, C., Picard, P., Pieretti, P., Rapoport, H. & 8 others, , 8 Apr 2020, Luxembourg: LISER, 8 p. (RECOV id working note - Synthesis).Research output: Working paper
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Household size and poverty
Fusco, A. & Islam, N., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Research on Economic Inequality.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article