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Chiara joined the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing in 2024 as a Research Fellow.
She previously worked as a researcher with both quantitative and qualitative expertise in projects interested in labour market policies, technological revolutions, and the green economy at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (Prof. Carlota Perez), the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute, and the Law & Economics Centre at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She also collaborates with the Laboratoire d’Etudes sur les Nouvelles formes de Travail, l’Innovation et le Changement of HEC Liège.
Chiara obtained her PhD in Economics & Law, summa cum laude, at the University of Bologna (Prof. Enrico Sanrarelli), Erasmus University Rotterdam (Prof. Michael Faure), and Universität Hamburg. Her thesis explored the socioeconomic and historical implications of reskilling programmes in the labour market and the existence of an identity in the labour market which has a social dynamic.
Personal website & publications: https://sites.google.com/view/chiaranataliefocacci
Links to publicly accessible reports; academic publications available on request.
2025
2024
- Managers in the Era of Digital Transformation: Navigating the Dual Realities of Time
- Green jobs, intertemporal preferences, and social pressure: an experiment for a green transition of the labour market
- Empowering Older Adults: Education’s Crucial Role in a Changing Technological and Environmental Landscape
2023
- Mitigating the Labor Displacing Effects of Automation through a Robot Tax
- Understanding the Dynamic of Government Expenditures for Disability and Other Social Benefits: Evidence From a Lotka-Volterra Model for the Netherlands
- Let the Facts Speak, Not the Pictures. An Experiment for Rape Narratives
- When We Were Young: How Labour Market Attachment During Mid-Career Affects Working Life Exit
- The Value of Pension Reforms for Late Working Life: Historical Evidence From Sweden
- Ethnolinguistic Diversity, Quality of Local Public Institutions, and Firm-Level Innovation
- How Does Institutional Context Shape Work-Related Functionings for Regular and Self-Employed Workers? A Contextualised Application of the Capability Approach to Belgium, France, and the Netherlands
2022
- Old Versus Young: How Much Do Countries Spend on Social Benefits? Deterministic Modelling for Government Expenditure
- The Importance of Education and Training Policies in Supporting Technological Revolutions: A Comparative and Historical Analysis of UK, US, Germany, and Sweden (1830-1970)
- A New Role for the Social Services: Fighting Unemployment in the Time of Covid-19
- Choosing the Right COVID-19 Indicator: Crude Mortality, Case Fatality, and Infection Fatality Rates Influence Policy Preferences, Behavior, and Understanding
2021
- Regional Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Technological Transformation, Digitalisation and the Longer Term. The Case of the UK and Bulgaria
- Technological Unemployment, Robotisation, and Green Deal: A Story of Unstable Spillovers in China and South Korea (2008-2018)
2020
- Why Do Unemployed People Avoid Participation in Training? An Experiment for Policy Making
- You Reap What You Sow: Do Active Labour Market Policies Always Increase Job Security? Evidence from the Youth Guarantee
- Unpredictable Spillovers Among Water Uses? An Analysis of Agricultural, Industrial, and Household Uses of Water in the Balkans