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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). He recently led a large scale process evaluation of Luxembourg minimum income scheme (REVIS) carried out by LISER on behalf of the Ministry of Family and Integration.
Education/Academic qualification
Economics and business, PhD
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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PAN_pov: Soutien au Ministère dans l'élaboration du Plan d'action national luxembourgeois pour la prévention et la lutte contre la pauvreté
Guio, A.-C. (PI), Marlier, E. (CoI), Peluso, E. (CoI), Fusco, A. (CoI), Alieva, A. (CoI) & Quaresma Brant Chaves, T. (CoI)
1/03/25 → 30/11/25
Project: Research
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WeLaR: Welfare systems and labour market policies for economic and social resilience in Europe
Martin, L. (PI), Van Kerm, P. (CoI), Olivera, J. (CoI), Machado, J. (CoI), Lenaerts, K. (Partner PI), Barslund, M. (CoI), Vandekerckhove, S. (CoI), Lenaerts, K. (CoI), Ramioul, M. (CoI), Islam, N. (CoI), Guio, A.-C. (CoI), Lewandowski, P. (CoI), Magda, I. (CoI), Drahokoupil, J. (CoI), Palczynska, M. (CoI), Albinowski, M. (CoI), Hartwig, R. (CoI), Leitner, S. (CoI), Jestl, M. (CoI), mara, I. (CoI), Holtgrewe, U. (CoI), Vana, I. (CoI), Koller, K. (CoI), Perugini, C. (CoI), Pompei, F. (CoI), Venturini, F. (CoI), Castellani, D. (CoI), Siegloch, S. (CoI), Abrell, J. (CoI), Ungerer, M. (CoI), Rausch, S. (CoI), Markiewicz, O. (CoI), Zarkovic, J. (CoI), Arandarenko, M. (CoI), Vladisavljevic, M. (CoI), Avlijas, S. (CoI), Anic, A. (CoI), Van Hercke, B. (CoI), Peña-Casas, R. (CoI), Ghailani, D. (CoI), Verheyden, B. (CoI), Kruten, T. (CoI), Fusco, A. (CoI), Nguyen-Thi, T. U. (CoI) & Hauret, L. (CoI)
1/09/22 → 31/08/25
Project: Research
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IOM: Inequality of Opportunity: Measurement, Evolution and Mechanisms
Fusco, A. (PI), van der Weide, R. (Host Institution) & Ferreira, F. H. G. (CoI)
Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
1/06/22 → 31/05/26
Project: Research
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(LIS)²ER: (LIS)²ER Initiative
Peluso, E. (PI), Van Kerm, P. (CoI), Munzi, T. (CoI), Fusco, A. (CoI), Islam, N. (CoI), Lee, K. (CoI) & Sauer, P. (CoI)
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
1/01/20 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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DRIVEN: Data-driven computational modelling and applications
Fusco, A. (PI), Beex, L. (CoI), Billieux, J. (CoI), Bordas, S. (CoI), D'Ambrosio, C. (CoI), Del Sol, A. (CoI), Francis, O. (CoI), Hale, J. (CoI), Pang, J. (CoI), Peters, B. (CoI), Sauter, T. (CoI), Skupin, A. (CoI), Theobald, M. (CoI), Tkatchenko, A. (CoI), Van Dam, T. (CoI), Viti, F. (CoI), Vögele, C. (CoI), Zilian, A. (Partner PI) & Montorsi, C. (CoI)
Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg
1/09/18 → 31/08/25
Project: Research
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Predicting depression in old age: Combining life course data with machine learning
Montorsi, C., Fusco, A., Van Kerm, P. & Bordas, S., Jan 2024, In: Economics and Human Biology. 52, 101331.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Evaluation du dispositif du revenu d'inclusion sociale (REVIS): Présentation de l'évaluation et sythèse des principaux résultats.
Translated title of the contribution :Evaluation of the social inclusion income scheme (REVIS): Presentation of the evaluation and summary of the main findings. Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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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 9 p. (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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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
Open Access
Impacts
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Fighting Poverty: Measurement & Policy Challenges - Workshop Recap
Depireux, A. (Organiser), Fusco, A. (Organiser), Guio, A.-C. (Organiser), Lanjouw, P. (Organiser), Lee, K. (Organiser), Marlier, E. (Organiser), Menta, G. (Participant), Munzi, T. (Organiser), Omar, H. (Organiser), Peluso, E. (Organiser) & Van Kerm, P. (Organiser)
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