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Ricardo Rodrigues

Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG) - University of Lisbon


Ricardo Rodrigues

Ricardo Rodrigues (PhD in Social Policy and Social Work, University of York, UK) is an Assistant Professor at the Lisbon School of Economics & Management (ISEG) – University of Lisbon. He is currently a member of the Board of the Research Centre for Economic and Organisational Sociology – SOCIUS and leads the research group on Economic Sociology and Work at ISEG. He has a background in Economics and Social Policy and is currently part of two Horizon projects: BUILD (integrated care and inequalities in care transitions) and X2Resilience (Economic evaluation of extended reality intervention in care workforce)

FURTHER INFORMATION

Countries Austria; England (UK); Europe; Portugal;
Topics Access to care; Care inequalities; Care needs poverty and deprivation; Care trajectories; COVID-19 and other infectious diseases and LTC; Employment education and family carers; Financing LTC; Gender and care; LTC Policy; LTC Reforms; LTC utitilisation; LTC Workforce; Unmet needs; Unpaid / informal care;
Methods Causal inference in Long-Term Care; Comparative policy analysis; Longitudinal data analysis; Panel data analysis; Policy analysis; Quantitative data analysis; Quasi-experimental methods;
Role Research;
Interest Groups Economics of Long-Term Care; Long-Term Care Policy; Quasi-experimental methods; Unmet need inequalities and care poverty (UNICAP); Working Conditions and Wages in Long-Term Care;
Websitehttps://www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/en/faculty/ricardo-alcobia-rodrigues
ORC.ID0000-0001-8438-4184
GOOGLE SCHOLARhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oujrSp4AAAAJ&hl=en
Other 1https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ricardo-Rodrigues-25;
Research interests

Current research interests include inequalities in health and use of care, the impact of caregiving on health and labour market outcomes and care workforce. These themes are usually approached from a comparative perspective across Europe.

Key publications

Rodrigues, R., Rehnberg, J., Simmons, C. et al. (2023) “Cohort trajectories by age and gender for informal caregiving in Europe adjusted for socio-demographic changes, 2004 and 2015”. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B (early view) gbad011, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbad011
https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/78/8/1412/6998173
Rodrigues, R., Hrast, M.F., Kadi, S.et al (2022). “Life course pathways into intergenerational caregiving”, The Journals of Gerontology – Series B, 77(7), 1305-1314 https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac024
https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/77/7/1305/6522976
Rodrigues, R., Ilinca, S., Schmidt, A. (2018) “Income-rich and wealth-poor? The impact of measures of socio-economic status in the analysis of the distribution of long-term care use among older people”, Health Economics, 27(3): 637-646
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hec.3607
Simmons, C., Rodrigues, R., Szebehely. M. (2021) “Working conditions in the long-term care sector: A comparative study of migrant and native workers in Austria and Sweden”, Health & Social Care in the Community (early view) https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13657
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hsc.13657