Publications

Published/accepted in peer-reviewed journals

Gatta, A. (2025). Do Employers Discriminate Against Active Labour Market Policies Participants? A Field Experiment on the Youth Guarantee Internship in Italy. European Economic Review (Accepted; A*)

Ablaza, C., Gatta, A., Stambe, R., and Marston, G. (2025). Non-standard Employment and Job Satisfaction: the Mediating Role of Job Characteristics. British Journal of Industrial Relations. Online first. (A*)

Gatta, A., Ablaza, C., Stambe, R., and Marston, G. (2025). What is a Good Job and Who Gets it? Exploring the Multidimensionality of Job Quality. Social Indicators Research, 179, 481–504. (A)

Gatta, A., Mattioli, F., Mencarini, L., and Vignoli, D. (2022). Employment Uncertainty and Fertility Intentions: Stability or Resilience? Population Studies, 76(3), 387–406. (A)

Book Chapters

Gatta. A. (2025). Le indagini sui senzatetto in Italia: Fonti, dati, metodologie. [Eng translation: Homeless surveys in Italy: Sources, data, methodologies]. In: Fonti di dati sulla popolazione senzatetto: un’indagine PIT (Point in Time) nel comune di Roma. [Eng translation: Data sources on the homeless population: a PIT (Point in Time) survey in the municipality of Rome.].  Italian Bureau of Statistics. (Forthcoming)

Gatta, A., Chiocchio, F., and A. Bonvecchio (2020) Questi Giovani che non mettono su famiglia. In: Ci pensiamo noi. Dieci proposte per far spazio ai giovani in Italia. [Egea]. [Eng: Youths that do not start a family].

Gatta, A., Bidut, E. and M. Conte (2020) Partenza in salita. In: Ci pensiamo noi. Dieci proposte per far spazio ai giovani in Italia. [Egea]. [Eng: Uphill departure]

Working papers

Understanding the non-take-up of the Italian Minimum Income Scheme. (R&R at the Journal of Economic Inequality; A; Lead author, co-authored with Giovanni Gallo and Massimo Baldini)

The determinants of duration dependence: labour market conditions and employer beliefs (Co-led with Mario Spiezio)

Housing discrimination publications: a bibliometric analysis. (Co-authored with Vanessa Ioannoni)

On Swedish and Australian employers’ attitudes to recruiting welfare clients and the role of stigma. A working paper.     (Co-authored with Rose Stambe, Anna Angelin and Rickard Ulmestig)

Selected work in progress

Legitimising time out of work: Evidence from a vignette experiment with hiring managers in Australia. (Lead author, co-authored with Christine Ablaza and Todd Morris)

Active Labour Market Policies as a way to overcome unemployment stigma? Evidence from a vignette experiment and Australian administrative data. (Lead author, co-authored with Christine Ablaza and Todd Morris)

Increasing attraction and gender diversity in the community services sector. Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Australia. (Lead author, co-authored with Christine Ablaza, Robert Arcidiacono and Greg Marston)

Homelessness and welfare interruptions: is there a causal link? (Co-authored with Julie Moschion)