Raffaele Grotti

Via Verdi, 26 - 38122 Trento
tel. 0461 281451
raffaele.grotti[at]unitn [dot] it
Formazione
  • 2016  PhD in Sociology and Social Research,Doctoral School of Social Sciences, University of Trento
    Thesis Title: Shaping economic inequality: the starring role of the household in the 'welfare triad'
    Supervisor: Prof. Stefani Scherer
    Committee members:Prof. Paolo Barbieri, Prof. Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Prof. Ulrich Kohler, Prof. Roberto Tamborini
  • 2011 MA in Sociology and Social Research, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento
    Thesis Title: Lavoro temporaneo e disuguaglianze a livello di coppia: accumulazione tra i partner? (Flexible employment and inequality: is there risk accumulation among partners?).
    Evaluation: 110/110 cum laude
  • 2008 BA in Sociology, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento
Carriera accademica ed attività didattica

ACADEMIC POSTS

Since 2024 -- Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento

2021-2024  -- Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento
2018-2021  -- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, European University Institute
2016-2018  -- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Quantitative Sociology, Social Research Division, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin
2016-2016  -- Research Fellow, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento

 

OTHER POSTS AND ROLES

Since 2019 -- Research Affiliate, Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA), Stockholm University
Since 2018 -- Editorial Assistant, Journal: “Advances in Life Course Research” (ISSN: 1040-2608)
2016-2018  -- Adjunct Researcher, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Dublin

 

RESEARCH VISITS

2021 (May)          -- Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA), Department of Sociology, Stockholm University
2020 (Feb.-Mar.) -- Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA), Department of Sociology, Stockholm University
2019 (May-Jun.)  -- Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA), Department of Sociology, Stockholm University
2013 (Jan.-Jun.)  -- Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

 

TEACHING 

2021          -- Advanced Longitudinal Analysis, PhD level, Doctoral School of Social Sciences, University of Trento
2021          -- Longitudinal Data Analysis, PhD level, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute
2019-2020 -- Panel Data Analysis, PhD level, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute
2019          -- Workshop “Social Mobility and Stratification”, SPS Summer Academy 2019, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute
2016          -- Statistics for Sociological Research (Crash Course), MA level, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento
2016          -- The path of quantitative research: from question to answers (and their presentation), MA level, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento
2014-2016 -- Quantitative Methods, MA level, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento
2012-2014 -- Laboratory on Quantitative Methods using Stata, MA level, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento

Interessi di ricerca

Social and economic inequalities, income dynamics, welfare and labour market studies in comparative perspective, health inequalities, quantitative methods

Attività di ricerca

PARTICIPATION IN AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS

2021-2024 -- CO-PI, with Aradhya, S. of the project “Dynamics of immigrant integration in unemployment, poverty, and segregation”, funded by the Swedish Research Council (3,900,000 SEK - c.a. 380,000 EURO)


2018-2021 -- Research Fellow for the project “CRITEVENTS – Critical Life Events and the Dynamics of Inequality: Risk, Vulnerability, and Cumulative Disadvantage”, supported by the NORFACE Joint Research Programme on Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course, which is co-funded by the European Commission through Horizon 2020 under grant agreement No 724363, PI: Prof. Thomas Leopold (University of Cologne)


2016-2017 -- Research Fellow for the project “STYLE – Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe”, funded by the European Research Council (7th Research Framework Programme, FP7-SSH Grant N.: 613256), PI: Prof. Jacqueline O’Reilly (University of Sussex)


2011-2016 -- Research Fellow for the project “FamIne - Families of Inequalities”, funded by the European Research Council (7th Research Framework Programme, FP7-IDEAS-ERC Grant N.: 263183),  PI: Prof. Stefani Scherer (University of Trento)


2013-2013 -- Research Assistant for the project "Stratified Family Dynamics: polarizing trends in couple behaviour and parenting ("Family polarization")", funded by the European Research Council (7th Research Framework Programme, FP7-IDEAS-ERC Grant N.: 269387), PI: Prof. Gøsta Esping-Andersen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

 

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (NOT JOURNAL ARTICLES)

Privalko. I., Maître, B., Watson, D. and Grotti, R. (2019). Access to Childcare and Home Care Services Across Europe. Dublin: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and Economic and Social Research Institute. ISBN: 978-1-908109-55-2

Grotti, R., Maître, B. and Watson, D. (2019). Technical Paper on Access to Care Services in Ireland, Social Inclusion Technical Paper No. 9. Dublin: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. ISBN: 978-1-908109-51-4

Russell, H., Grotti, R., McGinnity, F. and Privalko, I. (2019). Caring and Unpaid Work in Ireland. Dublin: The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC). ISBN: 978-0-7070-0489-1

Fahey, É., Russell, H., McGinnity, F. and Grotti, R. (2019). Diverse Neighbourhoods: an Analysis of the Residential Distribution of Immigrants in Ireland. Dublin: The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC). ISBN: 978-0-7070-0488-4

Watson, D., Maître, B., Grotti, R., and Whelan, C.T. (2018). Poverty Dynamics of Social Risk Groups in the EU: An analysis of the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, 2005 to 2015. Dublin: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Economic and Social Research Institute. ISBN: 978-1-908109-46-0

Grotti, R., Russell, H., Fahey, É. and Maître, B. (2018). Discrimination and Inequality in Housing in Ireland. Dublin: The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC). ISBN: 978-0-7070-0459-4

McGinnity, F., Grotti, R., Groarke, S. and Coughlan, S. (2018). Ethnicity and Nationality in the Irish Labour Market. Dublin: The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC). ISBN: 978-0-7070-0479-2

Banks, J., Grotti, R., Fahey, É. and Watson, D. (2018). Disability and discrimination in Ireland: Evidence from the QNHS Equality Modules 2004, 2010, 2014. Dublin: The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC). ISBN: 978-0-7070-0464-8

McGinnity, F., Grotti, R., Russell, H. and Fahey, É. (2018). Attitudes to Diversity in Ireland. Dublin: The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC). ISBN: 978-0-7070-0449-5

McGinnity, F., Grotti, R., Kenny, O. and Russell, H. (2017). Who experiences discrimination in Ireland? Evidence from the QNHS Equality Modules. Dublin: The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC). ISBN: 978-0-7070-0438-9

Grotti, R., Maître, B., Watson, D. and Whelan, C.T. (2017). Poverty Transitions in Ireland: An Analysis of the longitudinal Central Statistics Office (CSO) Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC), 2004 -2015. Social Inclusion Technical Paper No. 8, Dublin: Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. ISBN: 978-0-7070-0444-0

Russell, H., Smyth, E., McCoy, S., Grotti, R., Watson, D. and Kenny, O. (2017). A study of gender in senior civil service positions in Ireland. Dublin: The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). ISBN: 978-0-7070-0441-9

 

WORKING PAPERS

Aradhya, S., Grotti, R., and Härkönen, J. (2020). ‘Heterogeneous unemployment dynamics of ancestral Swedes and second-generation immigrants’, Stockholm Research Reports in Demography, 14: 1-37. ISSN: 2002-617X

Tattarini, G. and Grotti, R. (2020). ‘Gender roles and selection mechanisms across contexts: A comparative analysis of the relationship between unemployment, self-perceived health, and gender’, DIAL Working Paper Series, 20/2020.

 

Appartenenza a società e comitati scientifici

Centre for Social Inequality Studies (CSIS) https://r.unitn.it/en/soc/csis

Comparative Life Course & Inequality Research Centre (CLIC) https://www.eui.eu/Projects/CLIC

Convegni e conferenze

COORDINATION AND ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND SESSIONS

  • Jun. 2021 -- Organizing member of the session ‘A life-course perspective to Covid-19’ within the 5th SISEC Conference, University of Catania
  • Jan. 2020 -- Organizing member of the session ‘La Riproduzione delle Disuguaglianze’ within the 4th SISEC Conference, University of Turin
  • Oct. 2019 -- Member of the Scientific Committee and of the Organizing Committee for the Divorce Conference 2019 of European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce, October 2019, University of Florence/European University Institute
  • Mar. 2019 -- Chair of the session ‘Household composition, division of labour, and income inequality’ within the ISA RC28 Spring Meeting, Goethe University, Frankfurt
  • Jan. 2019 -- Organizing member of the session ‘Accumulazione delle diseguaglianze e dinamiche di stratificazione lungo i corsi di vita’ within the 3rd SISEC Conference, University of Naples, Naples

 

INVITED SEMINARS

  • Nov. 2020 -- ‘Heterogeneous unemployment dynamics of ancestral Swedes and second-generation immigrants’, Centre for Economic Demography Seminar Series, Lund University
  • Feb. 2020 -- ‘Social inequality and earnings trajectories. A growth curve analysis of Germany and the United States’, SUDA Colloquium, Stockholm University
  • Jun. 2019 -- ‘Parental separation and child wellbeing: addressing different separation scenarios’, Brown Bag Seminars, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento
  • Jan. 2019 -- ‘Heterogeneity in dynamics of risk accumulation: the case of unemployment’, DiSIA Seminar, Department of Statistics, Informatics and Applications, University of Florence
  • Jan. 2017 -- ‘Shaping economic inequality: the starring role of the household in the ‘welfare triad’’, 9th UL Winter School in Social Science Research Methods, January 20, University of Limerick

 

PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES

  • Mar. 2021 -- Harkonen, J., Grotti, R. and Dykstra, P.  ‘Process and event: parental separation and youth well-being ’. ISA RC28 Spring Meeting, University of Turku
  • Oct. 2020 -- Harkonen, J., Grotti, R. and Dykstra, P.  ‘Process and event: parental separation and youth well-being ’. 18th Meeting of the "European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce", University of Cologne
  • Sep. 2019 -- Aradhya, S., Grotti, R. and Harkonen, J. ‘The heterogeneous unemployment dynamics of natives and second-generation immigrants in Sweden’, ECSR Conference, University of Lausanne
  • Jun. 2019 -- Aradhya, S., Grotti, R. and Harkonen, J. ‘The heterogeneous unemployment dynamics of natives and second-generation immigrants in Sweden’, DIAL Mid-term Conference, University of Turku
  • May 2019 -- Harkonen, J. Grotti, R. and Dykstra. P. ‘Parental separation and child wellbeing: addressing different separation scenarios’, CRITEVENTS meeting, University of Oxford
  • Mar. 2019 -- Passaretta, G. and Grotti, R. ‘Social inequality and earnings trajectories. A growth curve analysis of Germany and the United States’. ISA RC28 Spring Meeting, Goethe University, Frankfurt
  • Jan. 2019 -- Tattarini, G. and Grotti, R. ‘Why do women not suffer from unemployment? The gendered effect of unemployment on self-perceived health’. SISEC Conference, Federico II University, Naples
  • Oct. 2018 -- Grotti, R., Maître, B., Whelan, C.T., and Watson, D. ‘Access to services and social exclusion in the EU, ECSR Conference, Sciences Po, Paris,
  • Oct. 2018 -- Grotti, R., and Cutuli, G. ‘Heterogeneity in dynamics of risk accumulation: the case of unemployment’. ECSR Conference, Sciences Po, Paris
  • Oct. 2018 -- Tattarini, G. and Grotti, R. ‘Why do women not suffer from unemployment? The gendered effect of unemployment on self-perceived health’. ECSR Conference, Sciences Po, Paris
  • Oct. 2018 -- Russell, H., Smyth, E., McCoy, S. and Grotti, R. ‘Reaching for the Top: Gender Imbalance in Senior Civil Service Positions in Ireland’. ECSR Conference, Sciences Po, Paris
  • Sep. 2018 -- Grotti, R., and Cutuli, G. ‘When it rains, it pours: The stratification of unemployment inertia in Europe’. TIY Conference, MZES, Mannheim
  • Sep. 2018 -- Russell, H., Smyth, E., McCoy, S. and Grotti, R. ‘Reaching for the Top: Gender Imbalance in Senior Civil Service Positions in Ireland’. WES Conference, Belfast
  • Jan. 2018 -- Grotti, R. and Cutuli, G. ‘Still out of work? Genuine state dependency and unemployment inertia in Europe’. SISEC Conference, Catholic University, Milan
  • Jan. 2018 -- Tattarini, G., Grotti, R. and Scherer, S. ‘The buffering role of the family in the relationship between job loss and self-perceived health: Longitudinal results from Europe, 2004-2011’. IAB Workshop ‘Unemployment and Well-being’, IAB, Nuremberg
  • Sep. 2017 -- Grotti, R., Russell, H. and O’Reilly, J. ‘Where do young people work? The impact of recession on the sectoral distribution of youth employment in Europe’. TIY Conference, KU Leuven, Brussels
  • Sep. 2017 -- Watson, D., Maître, B., Russell, H., Grotti, R. and Whelan, C.T. ‘Poverty and deprivation dynamics of social risk groups in the EU, 2005-2015’. ECSR Conference: Institutions, Inequality and Social Dynamics, Bocconi University, Milan
  • Jul. 2016 -- Tattarini, G., Grotti, R. and Scherer, S. ‘Health Consequences of Losing Job in Europe. Do the Contexts Make the Difference?’. 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology, Vienna
  • Jan. 2016 -- Tattarini, G., Grotti, R. and Scherer, S. ‘Job loss and health. Does the family make the difference?’. Economics Health and Happiness, Conference organized by The Department of Business Economics, Health & Social Care of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, HEIRS and SSPH+, Lugano
  • Oct. 2015 -- Grotti, R. and Scherer, S. ‘Economic Inequality in Context: the role of the Family, State and Market’, Convegno nazionale AIS-ELO: Europa del Sud: la regolazione sociale dell’economia nel capitalismo mediterraneo, Cagliari
  • Sep. 2015 -- Grotti, R. and Scherer, S. ‘The long-term consequences of job-loss for households income position and overall economic inequality. Evidence from Germany and the US’. ECSR Conference: Cumulative Inequalities in the Life Course, Tallinn University, Tallinn
  • Sep. 2014 -- Grotti, R. and Scherer, S. ‘Income Dynamics, Economic Inequality and the Household’. ECSR Conference: Social Inequality in Europe – On the Rise Again?, Humboldt University and WZB, Berlin
  • May 2014 -- Grotti, R. and Scherer, S. ‘Economic Inequality and the Role of the Family’. 2014 Spring Meeting of Research Committee 28: Old and New Social Divides: Social Stratification Research in the 21th century, Central European University, Budapest
  • Oct. 2013 -- Grotti, R. and Scherer, S. ‘Economic Inequality and the Role of the Family’. ECSR Conference: Developments in Social Inequality and Social Cohesion, Tilburg University, Tilburg