Franco Bonomi Bezzo (PhD University of Essex) is Research Fellow at La Statale, University of Milan, within the ERC project DESPO, working on the political and societal changes that have occurred as a consequence of European deindustrialization. From January 2020 to March 2021 he was based at the Institut national d’études démographiques (INED) in Paris where he worked on the international project DICE investigating the role of parental background on children educational attainment in France. In 2020 he got a PhD in applied social and economic research from the Institute for socio and economic research (ISER) at the University of Essex. Franco’s research lies at the intersection of economics and sociology. He is broadly interested in i) intergenerational mobility; ii) urban economic sociology; iii) basic income models and post-work scenarios.