Giulia Parola

• PhD
• PostDoc Position at University of the Bundeswehr Munich

Noting the lack of in-depth insights into the role of emotions and the malleability of affective dispositions for career development, the current research adopts a single case study approach, involving an employment initiative, to elicit conscious and unconscious emotions and beliefs of participants who are not in employment, education, or training...

One of the most frequent means of creating relationships between management research and practice is through collaboration. However, odds are that such arrangements will be filled with tensions that characterize the academic-practitioner gap. Against this background , our study investigates how academics and practitioners' micro-practices shape tur...

StayOn is a transnational project coordinated through the cooperation of eight European partners whose ultimate objective is to create conditions that enable young people to "stay on" rural areas by ensuring access to opportunities, benefits, services, and jobs. With this potentials assessment report, we intend to examine current and future labor m...

StayOn is a transnational project coordinated through the cooperation of eight European partners whose ultimate objective is to create conditions that enable young people to "stay on" rural areas by ensuring access to opportunities, benefits, services, and jobs. With this potentials assessment report, we intend to examine current and future labor m...

StayOn is a transnational project coordinated through the cooperation of eight European partners whose ultimate objective is to create conditions that enable young people to "stay on" rural areas by ensuring access to opportunities, benefits, services, and jobs. With this potentials assessment report, we intend to examine current and future labor m...

StayOn is a transnational project coordinated through the cooperation of eight European partners whose ultimate objective is to create conditions that enable young people to "stay on" rural areas by ensuring access to opportunities, benefits, services, and jobs. With this potentials assessment report, we intend to examine current and future labor m...

StayOn is a transnational project coordinated through the cooperation of eight European partners whose ultimate objective is to create conditions that enable young people to "stay on" rural areas by ensuring access to opportunities, benefits, services, and jobs. With this potentials assessment report, we intend to examine current and future labor m...

This report presents the findings of the impact evaluation carried out to assess the effectiveness of a series of interventions undertaken by the Italian organization Microfinanza to help unemployed young people develop their emotional capabilities, improve their achievements and behaviors, and, ultimately support them to enter employment or self-e...

This report presents the findings of the impact evaluation carried out to assess the effectiveness of a series of interventions undertaken by the Polish organization Youth Business Poland to help unemployed young people develop their emotional capabilities, improve their achievements and behaviors, and, ultimately support them to enter employment o...

This report presents the findings of the impact evaluation carried out to assess the effectiveness of a series of interventions undertaken by the Spanish organization Autoocupació to help unemployed young people develop their emotional capabilities, improve their achievements and behaviors, and, ultimately support them to enter employment or self-e...

This report presents the findings of the impact evaluation carried out to assess the effectiveness of a series of interventions undertaken by the Greek organization Development Agency of Karditsa (ANKA) to help young unemployed people develop their emotional capabilities, improve their achievements and behaviors, and, ultimately support them to ent...

This brief magazine article explains the complexity of the concept of social inclusion.

This report presents the findings of the impact evaluation that uses data until 15 January 2021 and was carried out to assess the effectiveness of a series of interventions undertaken by the Italian organization Microfinanza to help young people develop their emotional capabilities, improve their achievements and behaviors, and, ultimately, support...

This brief magazine article investigates the importance of assessing self-efficacy in youth employment interventions.

This brief magazine article investigates the link between youth and entrepreneurship.

As one of the worst-affected European countries by COVID-19 experiences a slow return to normality, all eyes are on what lies ahead. The labor market implications generated by weeks of drastic lockdown might be far-reaching, and uncertainty about the future of jobs in Italy increases. In this time of significant changes, fleshing out a range of pos...

This brief magazine article talks about the importance of academic-practitioner collaborations.

An impact assessment framework attempts to measure the change by evaluating the effects of the implemented interventions. This instrument enables policymakers, funders, and program designers to access substantial evidence of what works and how and what does not work and why in the world of youth employment programs. This Thinking Space paper explai...

This Thinking Space paper offers a brief review of two policies currently active in Italy, which have been trying to tackle the problem of youth unemployment from different angles. The first policy discussed refers to Italy's implementation of the Youth Guarantee. The second policy explored is called Resto al Sud ("I stay in the South"). It is an i...

This Thinking Space paper reviews the so-called Reddito di Cittadinanza; a fairly new reform rolled out in Italy in March 2019, which consists of a poor minimum income scheme conditional to work. While the most critical objective of this intervention is lifting people out of poverty through financial benefits, the fact that the scheme includes an e...

How to develop interventions for NEETs? The implementation phase should follow a logical process for the choice and design of interventions to improve the employment situation of NEETs. Against this background, we suggest a three-step approach to guide this process: 1) needs assessment, 2) strategies identification and 3) best-fit test.

Developing the Theory of Change (ToC) is about analyzing the underlying assumptions on which a program or intervention is based and explaining the causal relationship to produce the desired change. A ToC comprehensively illustrates how and why the desired change is expected to happen in the particular context, where the planned interventions take p...

An in-depth analysis of the local context should be conducted and robust targeting criteria established when recruitment is based on self-selection. In fact, programs may fail to attract the people most in need in a context of very unfavorable job market conditions. To help this process, we have developed a tool that can help identify potential tar...

This research aims at expanding our understanding of founder social identity in decision-making processes with regards to the founder’s marketing choices. Specifically, the main research question of this work is: how does founder social identity influence decisions regarding identity anchors in sustainable new ventures? The identity anchor that thi...