Associate professor
Oscar Molina is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research on Everyday Life and Work, a centre recognised by the Government of Catalonia as a ‘Consolidated Research Group’. In 2011, the centre was integrated into the Institute of Labour Studies, of which Oscar Molina is currently director.
Oscar Molina received his PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in 2004. Under the supervision of Professor Martin Rhodes, he studied changes in collective bargaining systems in Italy and Spain from a comparative perspective. Since then, he has held positions as research assistant at the Robert Schuman Centre (Florence), postdoctoral researcher at University College Dublin and ICREA researcher at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he has been since 2013.
Throughout his career, he has accumulated experience participating in and coordinating numerous national and international projects.
As for teaching-related activities, he teaches courses related to globalisation and industrial relations, industrial relations in Europe and sociology of work both at the UAB and externally. As for the training of research staff, it includes the direction of final projects, master’s degrees and doctoral theses.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Departament de Sociologia
Campus UAB- Edifici B
08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona)
Spain
Despatx B3/187
+34 93 581 2419
Oscar.Molina@uab.cat
Curriculum Vitae
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Areas of specialization
He has published extensively on topics related to issues such as social dialogue, public policies in the field of employment, collective bargaining on wages and/or other dimensions of job quality, on business strategies and industrial relations at the lower end of the wage scale. Recent publications include articles on the role of collective bargaining and worker participation mechanisms in AI regulation, the role of industrial relations in public sector wage setting and collective bargaining in low-skilled jobs in the current digital transformation.
He is also a member of the editorial board of Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research and the European Journal of Industrial Relations.
Selected bibliography
Di Carlo, Donato & Molina, Óscar (2024). Same but different? The Mediterranean growth regime and public sector wage-setting before and after the sovereign debt crisis. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 30(1), 31-53. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596801231183787
Godino, Alejandro; Molina, Oscar, & MartÃ, Joel. (2023). Coffee and cigarettes in industrial relations: A comparative network analysis of the role of informality. Journal of Industrial Relations, 65(5), 663-685. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221856231194760
Molina, Oscar; Butollo, Florian, Makó, Csaba; Godino, Alejandro; Holtgrewe, Ursula; Illsoe, Anna; Junte, Sander; Larsen, Trine Pernille; Illésy, Miklós; Pap, Jószef & Wotschack, Philip (2023). It takes two to code: a comparative analysis of collective bargaining and artificial intelligence. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10242589231156515
Godino, A., Molina, O. (2022) The industrial relations chameleon: collective bargaining in the facility management business. Employee Relations, 44(7), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-12-2020-0526
Guardiancich, I., & Molina, O. (2022). From gradual erosion to revitalization: National Social Dialogue Institutions and policy effectiveness. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 28(1), 85–103. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596801211018318
Barranco, O., & Molina, O. (2021). Continuity and change in trade union frames: Evidence from general strikes in Spain. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 42(4), 1232–1253. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X19857791
Molina, Oscar & Godino, Alejandro (2021). Scars that never heal: dualization and youth employment policies in Spain from the Great Recession to the Corona crisis, Sociologia del Lavoro, 159, 111-132, https://doi.org/10.3280/SL2021-159006
Molina, O. (2020). Regulating platform economies: Dilemmas, problems and divergence | La regolazione dell’economia delle piattaforme: Dilemmi, problemi e divergenze. Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, 15(1), 77–100. https://doi.org/10.1483/96930
