Maria Ventura

PhD Student

Email:

m.ventura@lse.ac.uk

Room:

SAL 2.01 F

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Public Economics
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Department of Economics

Biography

Maria is a PhD Candidate in Economics. Her research so far has focused on intergenerational persistence of occupations and its effects on labour market outcomes. More generally, she is interested in how agents make career choices and how this process can affect welfare and inequalities. Prior to joining the PhD programme, she completed the MRes (with distinction) and the MSc (with merit) in Economics at the LSE. She holds a BA in Management (cum laude) from University of Rome La Sapienza and spent a semester as visiting student at University College Dublin, Ireland, and one at Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

Maria Ventura's current research interests are:

Labour economics
Public economics
Applied microeconomics
Occupational choice
Intergenerational mobility
Migration

Latest

Blog

Are the self-employed trapped?

25 September 2023

Robert Blackburn and Maria Ventura

Still affected by the cost-of-living crisis, the self-employed are still struggling to recover their finances and mental health. Many of them would leave for a salaried job, yet they appear to be stuck in self-employment... Read more...

CEP Covid-19 analyses

The self-employment trap?

25 September 2023

Robert Blackburn, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura

The seventh LSE-CEP survey of the self-employed was undertaken in June 2023. The results revealed that the self-employed are still in the doldrums and their incomes and activity have not resumed to pre-pandemic levels. T... Read more...

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Self-employment dwindles amid the cost-of-living crisis

10 February 2023

Robert Blackburn and Maria Ventura

As the Covid-19 crisis has made way for inflation and skyrocketing energy prices, the self-employed have not yet found their way out of the recent economic adversities. And many of them are now finding their way out of s... Read more...

CEP Covid-19 analyses

From Covid-19 to collapse? The self-employed and the cost of living crisis

10 February 2023

Robert Blackburn, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura

The sixth LSE-CEP survey of the self-employed was undertaken in November 2022 and found that the downward trend in income levels of the self-employed reported in May 2022 has continued. The cost of living crisis is hitti... Read more...

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

Supporting the UK's self-employed

20 October 2022

Robert Blackburn and Maria Ventura

Two years after the Covid-19 crisis began, incomes of the UK’s self-employed remain well below their pre-pandemic levels. Robert Blackburn and Maria Ventura explain why the solo self-employed, who represent about 85% of ... Read more...

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Falling behind, the self-employed would sacrifice 10% of their income for an insurance scheme

28 July 2022

Robert Blackburn and Maria Ventura

Two years after the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, incomes of the self-employed in the UK are still well below their pre-pandemic levels. The number of self-employed workers dropped during the crisis and has not yet r... Read more...

CEP Covid-19 analyses

Covid-19 and the self-employed - A two year update

28 July 2022

Robert Blackburn, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura

The fifth LSE-CEP survey of the self-employed of May 2022 provides an up to date picture of how Covid-19 and its aftermath keep affecting the self-employed. The findings show that, although working on average a little mo... Read more...

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Earning less than before Covid-19, the self-employed struggle to make ends meet

24 November 2021

Robert Blackburn and Maria Ventura

Amid the renewed drives for economic growth, self-employed workers still struggle to recover fully from the COVID-19 crisis. Robert Blackburn and Maria Ventura write that In September 2021, 28% of workers reported financ... Read more...

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Some of the self-employed are still struggling amid uncertainty about whether they could claim grants

19 November 2021

Robert Blackburn, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura

The self-employed have not recovered from the pandemic despite five rounds of government support, find Robert Blackburn (University of Liverpool), Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura (LSE). More than a quarter are in financ... Read more...

CEP Covid-19 analyses

Covid-19 and the self-employed - 18 months into the crisis

18 November 2021

Robert Blackburn, Stephen Machin and Maria Ventura

A year and a half into the Covid-19 pandemic, growth and economic recovery are the latest watchwords amongst labour market commentators in the UK. In this report we continue to monitor the situation of the self-employed ... Read more...