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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 or The Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. He was principal investigator on CORE research grants from the Luxembourg Fonds National de la recherche for 'Investigating the Mechanisms of Reliance to Social Assistance' (IMeRSe ; 2017-2021) and 'the dynamics and persistence of poverty in Luxembourg' (PersiPov ; 2010-2014) and he participated to several EU-funded infrastructure projects (InGRID) and 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
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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WeLaR: Welfare systems and labour market policies for economic and social resilience in Europe
Martin, L., Van Kerm, P., Olivera, J., Machado, J., Lenaerts, K., Barslund, M., Vandekerckhove, S., Lenaerts, K., Ramioul, M., Islam, N., Guio, A., Lewandowski, P., Magda, I., Drahokoupil, J., Palczynska, M., Albinowski, M., Hartwig, R., Leitner, S., Jestl, M., mara, I., Holtgrewe, U., Vana, I., Koller, K., Perugini, C., Pompei, F., Venturini, F., Castellani, D., Siegloch, S., Abrell, J., Ungerer, M., Rausch, S., Markiewicz, O., Zarkovic, J., Arandarenko, M., Vladisavljevic, M., Avlijas, S., Anic, A., Van Hercke, B., Peña-Casas, R., Ghailani, D., Verheyden, B., Kruten, T., Fusco, A., Nguyen-Thi, T. U. & Hauret, L.
1/09/22 → 31/08/25
Project: Research
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IOM: Inequality of Opportunity: Measurement, Evolution and Mechanisms
Fusco, A., van der Weide, R. & Ferreira, F. H. G.
Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
1/06/22 → 31/05/25
Project: Research
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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. & Montorsi, C.
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)
1/09/18 → 31/08/25
Project: Research
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REVIS: Evaluation du dispositif REVIS
Fusco, A., GIRARDI, S., Leduc, K., Genevois, A., Lejealle, B., Thill, P., Peluso, E., Martins, C., Lambo Ouafo, A., Langehegermann, L., Segura, J., Clement, F., Frank, L. & Maas, R.
Ministère de la Famille, de l'Intégration et à la Grande Région
1/10/21 → 31/07/23
Project: Research
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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), Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR)
1/04/18 → 31/03/22
Project: Research
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Measuring poverty persistence
Fusco, A. & Van Kerm, P., 17 Mar 2023, Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation. Silber, J. (ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 192-200 (Elgar Handbooks in Development).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Distributional Change: Assessing the Contribution of Household Income Sources
Kyzyma, I., Fusco, A. & Van Kerm, P., Feb 2022, In: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. 84, 1, p. 158-184 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Investigating neighbourhood effects in welfare-to-work transitions
Dautel, V. & Fusco, A., 25 Jun 2021, Esch-sur-Alzette: LISER, 48 p. (Working papers; no. 2021-05).Research output: Working paper
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Robust cross-country analysis of inequality of opportunity
Andreoli, F. & Fusco, A., 1 Sept 2019, In: Economics Letters. 182, p. 86-89 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Are income poverty and perceptions of financial difficulties dynamically interrelated?
Ayllon, S. & Fusco, A., 1 Jan 2017, In: Journal of Economic Psychology. 61, p. 103-114Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review