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Bijgewerkt: 30 September 2026
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Social policies research
Massimiliano Mascherini
Massimiliano Mascherini is sinds oktober 2019 hoofd van de afdeling Sociaal Beleid bij Eurofound. Hij trad in 2009 in dienst bij Eurofound als onderzoeksmanager, waar hij projecten ontwierp en coördineerde over jeugdwerkgelegenheid, NEETs en gendergelijkheid. In 2017 werd hij senior onderzoeksmanager en leidde hij nieuw onderzoek naar monitoring van convergentie in de EU. Daarnaast leidde hij de conceptualisering van de Europese Levenskwaliteitsenquête van 2026. In 2025 ontving hij de Brendan Walsh-prijs voor het beste artikel gepubliceerd in Economic and Social Review. Eerder was hij wetenschappelijk medewerker bij het Joint Research Centre van de Europese Commissie. Hij studeerde aan de Universiteit van Florence, waar hij actuariële en statistische wetenschappen studeerde en een PhD behaalde in toegepaste statistiek. In 2014 behaalde hij een wetenschappelijke kwalificatie als universitair hoofddocent Sociale Statistiek en Demografie van het Italiaanse Ministerie van Universiteit en Onderzoek. Hij was gastonderzoeker aan de Universiteit van Sydney en aan de Universiteit van Aalborg en gastprofessor aan de Pauselijke Academie van Sociale Wetenschappen.
Onderwerpen van expertise
Massimiliano is expert op de volgende onderwerpen.
Sociaal beleid
Bijgewerkt: 30 September 2026
Kwaliteit van de samenleving
Bijgewerkt: 21 September 2026
Ongelijkheid
Bijgewerkt: 19 January 2026
Europese pijler van sociale rechten
Bijgewerkt: 16 September 2025
NEET's
Bijgewerkt: 19 August 2025
Werkloosheid
Bijgewerkt: 8 October 2024
Onderzoeksresultaten
Massimiliano is de auteur van de volgende publicaties.
Evenementen, podcast en blog
Massimiliano heeft bijgedragen aan de volgende evenementen, blogposts en podcastafleveringen.
Fysiek evenement
Gezamenlijk evenement
Leven en werk in focus: Bewijs uit de Westelijke Balkan
DatumFriday, 15 May 2026
LocatieWetenschaps-Technologisch Park, Podgorica, Montenegro
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Extern evenement
Informal meeting of the Social Protection Committee (SPC)
Datum22 – 23 September 2025
LocatieCopenhagen
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Gezamenlijk evenement
Foundation Forum 2025: Europa's sociale model – de sleutel tot concurrerende groei
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Datum19 – 20 November 2025
LocatieDublin
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25 June 2024
Podcastaflevering
Heeft Europa zijn jeugd in de steek gelaten?
In deze aflevering van Eurofound Talks spreekt Mary McCaughey met Eurofound-onderzoekers Eszter Sandor en Massimiliano Mascherini over de situatie voor jongeren in Europa, van de gevolgen van de economische crisis en de Grote Recessie tot de nasleep van de COVID-19-pandemie en stemtrends bij de recente verkiezingen voor het Europees Parlement. Ze bespreken hoe er de afgelopen jaren weliswaar enkele positieve trends op het gebied van werkgelegenheid zijn opgetreden, maar dat er zorgwekkende problemen zijn waarmee jongeren in Europa worden geconfronteerd die moeten worden overwonnen – niet alleen voor de jongeren in kwestie, maar ook voor een bredere economische en maatschappelijke stabiliteit.
2 May 2024
Blogpost
Trust in crisis: Europe’s social contract under threat
Part of the blog series: '10 reasons to Use Your Vote'.
11 December 2023
Blogpost
Europe’s widening rural–urban divide may make space for far right
The state in which the EU finds itself has been described as a ‘permacrisis’, whereby the Union is confronted by challenge after challenge, and citizens are constantly having to adapt to a ‘new normal’.
8 June 2022
Blogpost
Eurofound survey reveals widespread support for Ukraine
We are 100 days on from the invasion by Russia of Ukraine on 24 February, when peace in Europe was shattered. As the human tragedy began to unfold and with more than 6.8 million Ukrainians, mostly women and children, escaping their country since the start of the war, European citizens have been watching developments with increasing concern. Capturing this critical moment, Eurofound carried out a survey in April 2022 asking over 40,000 people living in Europe their views on a range of issues, including the war in Ukraine.
9 May 2022
Podcastaflevering
Living and working in Europe: Past, present and future
This podcast focuses on our annual update on the state of ‘Living and working in Europe’. It highlights trends and changes – both positive and negative – in the way citizens across the EU work today, and serves as a guide to policymakers at EU and Member State level. Our experts detail these with useful examples and insights which might also help face into the challenges raised by the most recent results from Eurofound’s unique pan-European Living, working and COVID-19 e-survey.
16 December 2021
Podcastaflevering
The impact of COVID-19 on young people in the EU
New day, new data highlighting the devastating impact of COVID-19 on young people across the European Union – most recently Eurofound’s unique pan-European Living, working and COVID-19 e-survey. We know this has taken an unprecedented toll on young people particularly – their mental well-being, their independence and more broadly, inter-generational solidarity as a whole. This podcast drills down to what it means to be a young person in Europe today, their lives, work, opportunities and challenges in the European Year of Youth.
23 June 2021
Blogpost
Vaccine acceptance hinges on transparent communication
Vaccine acceptance is key to the success of COVID-19 vaccination campaigns worldwide. Worryingly, over a quarter of people living in Europe are hesitant about taking a COVID-19 vaccine, and the level of hesitancy is especially high among heavy users of social media. The spread of misinformation on social media is an obstacle to reaching the goal of herd immunity against the coronavirus. Strategies to communicate clear and unbiased political and scientific information are needed to counter the effect of misinformation.
23 October 2020
Blogpost
Youth in a time of COVID
The exponential growth of COVID-19 cases across Europe this autumn has quickly erased hopes that the virus had been contained and confirmed the surge of another wave of the pandemic. With Member States now implementing new restrictive measures for the second time since March in an attempt to control the virus, the COVID-19 crisis has become a health, economic and social crisis.
3 June 2020
Blogpost
COVID-19 fallout takes a higher toll on women, economically and domestically
While women appear to be more resilient than men to COVID-19 in terms of health outcomes, that is not the case when it comes to the economic and social fallout. Measures taken by governments to control the spread of the virus are exacerbating gender divides in unemployment, domestic labour and financial security, all to the disadvantage of women. Meanwhile, work–life conflict is escalating as people work from home, with mothers of small children often bearing the brunt of the impact.
18 May 2020
Blogpost
Is history repeating itself? The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on youth
While we now know that the idea that ‘COVID-19 only affects older people’ is fake news, the first weeks of the pandemic have shown that young people are in general more resilient than older people to the disease. But are they also more resilient to its social and economic impacts?
17 April 2018
Blogpost
Long-term unemployed youth: The legacy of the crisis
In this blog, originally posted in Social Europe, Massimiliano Mascherini looks at the enduring issue of long-term unemployment among young people. Despite considerable improvement in the labour market participation of youth in recent years, the legacy of the crisis is still visible in the substantial increase in the cohort of long-term unemployed young people.
8 March 2017
Blogpost
Reducing Europe’s gender employment gap
One of the common values that unites the European Union is that of equal opportunities: all citizens should have the same possibility to improve their lives and participate in the labour market regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation. Ensuring equal opportunities in finding work also represents a key goal for Europe in facing the challenges posed by demographic change and achieving inclusive and sustainable growth.
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