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Risk and uncertainty
A new approach to job insecurity in later life

October 23, 2025 – 10:00 a.m.

CNR-ISMed
Humanities Pole (6th floor)
Via Cardinale Guglielmo Sanfelice 8
Naples

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on the Teams platform

Poster

The study is part of the PNRR Age-it “Ageing Well in an Ageing Society” research programme, falling within the scope of Task 1.4 (WP1, Spoke 6 “The Silver Economy. Work, participation, and welfare at older ages“).

The research focuses on the determinants of job insecurity, understood as the perceived risk at the individual level of seeing the continuity of one’s working career compromised in the future, a topic that plays a central role in the social sciences. During the seminar, a systemic assessment of the macroeconomic and individual factors contributing to job insecurity will be presented, with a particular focus on the role of transparency in institutional communication by governments and central banks. A counterfactual analysis will also be proposed to estimate the impact of the absence of full institutional transparency on job insecurity among mature workers (over 50) residing in some of the major economies of Mediterranean Europe.

THE SPEAKER. Luca Vota has been a fixed-term researcher (level III) at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the National Research Council (CNR-ISMed) since December 2024. He is currently involved in the project “Ageing Well in an Ageing Society” (Spoke 6 “The Silver Economy. Work, participation, and welfare at older ages“, WP 1, task 1.4), funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (P.N.R.R.).

After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Commerce and a master’s degree in Economics and Finance in 2018 and 2021, respectively, from the University of Salerno, in 2025 he received a PhD in Economics and Market and Business Policies from the Department of Economics and Statistics (DISES) of the same university. Starting from the 2021-2022 academic year, he is a subject expert for the chair of Mathematics for Economics and has provided supplementary teaching for the teaching of basic mathematics at DISES (University of Salerno).

His research interests are wide-ranging and mainly concern the assessment of the impact of economic policies, efficiency analysis, financial economics, regional economics and applied economics. He regularly publishes internationally, serving as Associate Editor for the American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Far East Journal of Applied Mathematics, Advances and Applications in Statistics and SN Business & Economics, as well as peer reviewer for numerous journals, including Computational Management Science, Quality & Quantity, Scientific Reports e Advances and Applications in Statistics.

His research has been presented, including by invitation, at numerous national and international conferences, workshops and seminars and has been published in several journals related to area 13, including Italian Economic Journal, Quality & Quantity, Socio-Econmc Planning Science and Annals of Finance.

Since May 2025, he has been the CNR-ISMed contact person for the Joint Research Unit SHARE.IT.

PROGRAMME

SPEAKER

Luca Vota
CNR-ISMed

INTRODUCES AND MODERATES

Luisa Errichiello
CNR-ISMed

FINAL DISCUSSION

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Gabriella Corona, Claudia Di Somma (CNR-ISMed)

INFO AND CONTACTS
segreteria.direzione@ismed.cnr.it

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
The seminar is open to the public, subject to availability.
It is possible to participate remotely via the Teams platform.