IJM 43.7 Obituary

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-10-2022-713
• Published date: 13 December 2022
• Date: 13 December 2022
• Pages: 1485-1486
• Subject Matter: Economics,Labour economics
• Author: Misbah Tanveer Choudhry

IJM 43.7 Obituary

Professor Francesco Pastore

With great sadness, we moan the much too early death of IJM Associate Editor Professor

Francesco Pastore (June 6, 1966–July 13, 2022). I have asked distinguished professor Klaus

Zimmermann, member of the IJM Editorial Advisory Board and a longstanding colleague

and friend of Francesco, to write an appreciation.

Professor Adrian Ziderman

Editor-in-Chief, IJM

Professor Francisco Pastore –an appreciation

Francisco Pastore will be remembered for his wide range of high-quality contributions to the

academic profession –as a highly respected Italian economist, a leading researcher in

European Labour Economics, a journal editor of sound judgment and loyal and a trusted

colleague.

Following a Master of Science in Economics at Coripe-PieIJMmonte, University of Turin, a

Dottorato di Ricerca in Development Economics and Policy at the University of Naples

“Federico II”and a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Sussex, he was ranked as Full

Professor of Economic Policy (Italian national habilitation system) and as an Associate

Professor of Political Economy and Economic Statistics.

He has been an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of the

University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli since 2015. His outstanding reputation and his

strong commitment for serving the scientific community have brought him many honorable

affiliations including the positions of Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy of

Sciences, Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and Fellow of the

Global Labor Organization (GLO). For longer periods, he served as the Secretary of the Italian

Association of Labour Economics (AIEL) and on the Executive Boards of the European

Association of Comparative Economic Studies (EACES) and the Italian Association of

Comparative Economic Studies (AISSEC).

Francesco committed considerable time and effort to editorial responsibilities. Next to his

role as Associate Editor of IJM and the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE), he served as

the Managing Editor of the IZA Journal of Development and Migration and on the boards of

many other journals. Prior to his appointment as IJM Associate Editor, he acted over the

years as Guest Co-Editor for five well-received IJM special-themed issues. It is sad that he was

unable to complete this current issue on “School to Work Transition Around the World: The

Effect of the Pandemic Recession”; its high quality is largely due his remarkable commitment

and leadership. We are grateful to Professor Misbah Tanveer for completing the task.

Obituary

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International Journal of Manpower

Vol. 43 No. 7, 2022

pp. 1485-1486

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DOI 10.1108/IJM-10-2022-713