Workshop at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri (Torino), Italy
May 20-21, 2010

Overview

This workshop will examine systems of social protection in Latin America and Southern Europe from the point of view of their ability (or lack thereof) to protect those outside the formal labor market, as well as the increasing numbers of "precarious" workers located in the grey area between "formality" and "informality". The questions are why various governments were or were not able to adapt their traditional systems of social protection to changes in the economic and social structures that have left increasingly large proportions of the population outside the reach of insurance systems based on formal sector jobs.

The workshop will consist of sessions led by experts on social policy in the various countries. We will discuss the work of these experts as well as other studies suggested by them. We will make all the papers available ahead of time, posted on our website, to facilitate informed comparative discussions.

Organizers

The 2010 Social Protection Workshop is organized by:

Maurizio Ferrera, Professor of Political Science and President of the Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Studies of the State University of Milan
Evelyne Huber, Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UNC Chapel Hill
John D. Stephens, Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at UNC Chapel Hill
The Workshop is supported by the Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Sciences of the University of Milan, the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Network Coordinator for the United States' European Union Centers of Excellence, and the Compagnia di San Paolo.

Participants

The workshop will feature a number of invited speakers and discussants:

Pedro Adão, ISTCE Instituto Universitario de Lisboa, Portugal
Ana Arriba, Universidad de Alcala, Spain
Daniela Del Boca, University of Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy
Maurizio Ferrera, State University of Milan, Italy
Fernando Filgueira, CEPAL, Santiago, Chile
Evelyne Huber, UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Matteo Jessoula, University of Milan, Italy
Rubén Lo Vuolo, CIEPP, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ilaria Madama, University of Milan, Italy
Franca Maino, University of Milan, Italy
Juliana Martínez-Franzoni, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
Manos Matsaganis, University of Athens, Greece
Sara Niedzwiecki, UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Jennifer Pribble, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Stefano Sacchi, University of Milan & Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy
John Stephens, UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Programme

The most recent version of the workshop program is available for download in Adobe PDF format: click here to download.

Papers

Click here to see The papers section of this website. The section is password-protected.
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