Moris Triventi • Projects • European University Institute

Associated Project: eduLIFE: Education as a Lifelong Process – Comparing Educational Trajectories in Modern Societies

Role: Senior Research Scientist

Contact: [email protected]

Moris Triventi is a Research fellow in the ERC Advanced Grant project "eduLIFE" since September 2013. He received his PhD in Applied Sociology and Methodology of Social Research at the University of Milan-Bicocca in 2010, with a thesis on social inequality in access to higher education in comparative perspective. He attended several courses on quantitative methods at the University of Essex, Oxford, Bamberg, and Trento. In the period 2011-2013 he has been a post-doc researcher at the University of Milan-Bicocca studying social inequalities in higher education and in the transition to labour market among European graduates. In the Spring of 2012 he was a visiting researcher at AMCIS (Amsterdam Center of Inequality Studies) at the University of Amsterdam.

Research Interests

Social stratification, educational inequalities, higher education, quantitative methods of data analysis.

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Books

H.-P. Blossfeld, J. Skopek, M. Triventi & S. Buchholz, (Eds.) (2015). Gender, Education and Employment: An International Comparison of School-to-Work Transitions, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, forthcoming.
Trivellato P. & Triventi M. (Eds.) (2015). L’istruzione superiore: Caratteristiche, funzionamento e risultati [Higher Education: Characteristics, functioning and outcomes], Carocci, Rome.

Peer-reviewed articles

Triventi M., J. Skopek, Y. Kosyakova, S. Buchholz & H.-P. Blossfeld (2015). Gender inequalities at labor market entry: A comparative view from the eduLIFE project, Comparative Social Research, 2, forthcoming.
Argentin G. & Triventi M. (2015). The North-South divide in school grading standards: New evidence from national assessments of the Italian student population, Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, 7(2), 157-185.
Passaretta G. & Triventi M. (2015). Work experience during higher education and post-graduation occupational outcomes. A comparative study on four European countries, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2, Published online before print May 28, 2015, doi: 10.1177/0020715215587772.
Triventi M., Panichella N., Ballarino G., Barone C. & Bernardi F. (2015). Education as a positional good. Implications for social inequalities in educational attainment in Italy, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, online advanced access, doi:10.1016/j.rssm.2015.04.002.
Panichella N. & Triventi M. (2014). Social Inequalities in the Choice of Secondary School. Long-term trends during educational expansion and reforms in Italy, European Societies, vol. 16, n. 5, pp. 666-693.
Triventi M. (2014). Does working during higher education affect students’ academic progression?, Economics of Education Review, vol. 41, pp. 1-13.
Ballarino G., Panichella P. & Triventi M. (2014). School expansion and uneven modernization. Comparing educational inequality in Northern and Southern Italy. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Vol. 36, June, pp. 69-86.
Passaretta G. & Triventi M. (2014). Il lavoro durante gli studi universitari e gli esiti occupazionali dopo la laurea. Il caso italiano in prospettiva comparata [Working during university and post-graduation occupational outcomes. The Italian case in comparative perspective]. Sociologia del Lavoro, 136, pp. 203-220.
Triventi M. (2014). Le disuguaglianze di istruzione secondo l’origine sociale: una rassegna della letteratura sul caso italiano [Educational inequalities by social background: A review of the literature on the Italian case]. Scuola Democratica, 2, pp. 321-342

Chapters in edited books

Bernardi, F. and Triventi, M. (in press). The transition from school to work, in G. Ritzer (Ed.), Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Second Edition,Wiley-Blackwell.

eduLIFE chapters

Gender, Education and Employment: An International Comparison of School-to-Work Transitions

H.-P. Blossfeld, S. Buchholz, J. Dämmrich, E. Kilpi-Jakonen, Y. Kosyakova, J. Skopek, M. Triventi and D. Vono de Vilhena (2015). Gender differences at labor market entry – the effect of changing educational pathways and institutional structures. Pp. 3-35
H.-P. Blossfeld, J. Skopek, Y. Kosyakova, M. Triventi & S. Buchholz (2015).Gender, education and employment: Lessons learned from the comparative perspective. Pp.343-381

Selected presentations 2014-2015

Triventi M. and Skopek J.(2015) "Educational assortative mating and children’s early schooling performance", ISA-Rc28, Tilburg, 28-30 May.
Triventi M. and Dammrich J. "From primary school to young adulthood: A cross-national analysis of cognitive competencies and related social inequalities". ECSR Conference, Tallinn, 6-8 September 2015
Triventi M. and Skopek J. " Ability sorting or freedom of choice? Secondary school tracking and inequalities in educational achievement in Germany and Italy".ECSR Conference, Tallinn, 6-8 September 2015
Triventi M., Ballarino G., Barone C., Bernardi F., Panichella N.(2014) "Trends of social inequality in educational attainment when education is treated as a positional good". Evidence from Italy. Paper presented at the ISA-Rc28 Conference, Budapest, 8-10 May.
Skopek J. and Triventi M. (2014) "Gender, social class of origin, and track allocation in upper secondary education. Long-term trends in Germany and Italy", Paper presented at the AMCIS Conference, Amsterdam, 13-14 February.

Outcomes of the final conference of the eduLIFE project

Description: short report on the eduLIFE final conference
Date:: 30/05/2016

Final Conference of the eduLIFE project

Description: At the final conference, the eduLIFE research team will present and discuss the key results of the project with outstanding experts in the field. 23-24 May 2016, Badia Fiesolana
Date:: 27/04/2016

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