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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 or The Journal of Economic Psychology. 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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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
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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), Fonds National de la Recherche-FNR
1/04/18 → 31/03/22
Project: Research
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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
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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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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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Robust cross-country analysis of inequality of opportunity
Andreoli, F. & Fusco, A., 1 Sep 2019, In: Economics Letters. 182, p. 86-89 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Social Exclusion: Theoretical Approaches
Bellani, L. & Fusco, A., 2018, Handbook of Research on Economic and Social Well-Being. D'Ambrosio, C. (ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., p. 193-205Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › 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