Paola De Pascali

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Researcher Fellow at Coventry University

The WATSON project aims to develop and demonstrate a framework methodology for studying the impact of Research and Development (R&D) tax credits and incentives on innovation projects led by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) throughout Europe. R&D tax credit schemes have been widely implemented as a measure of innovation funding, but most s...

This thesis investigates how social norms and traditional family values, persistent in the social stratification, remain important elements to define gender disparities. Through two empirical researches, the role of women is explored both at household level and in the labour market. First, an exploratory questionnaire has been designed to invest...

De-industrialization, Universities underfinancing and intellectual migration: the Italian case. The aim of this paper is to analyze the link existing between the reduction of public expenditure on tertiary education and scientific research and the increase in migration on the part of young individuals with high human capital, from Southern to North...

Traditional household models of resource allocation tend to consider gender norms as exogenous constraints on women’s access to resources. Power relationships then help perpetuating these norms within the household but it is not clear how men and women articulate these norms between and within themselves. The aim of this article is to show the exte...

The aim of this paper is to study the effects of austerity policies (i.e. restrictive fiscal policies combined with labour market deregulation) on employment and labour migration trends from Southern to Nothern Italy, in the theoretical framework of Institutional economics. Following Myrdal, it will be shown that austerity policies give rise to a v...