Publications

Please find below a list of my publications:

Peer-reviewed publications

Cova, Joshua (2025) ‘A new database for Italian parliamentary speeches: Introducing the ItaParlCorpus dataset’, Italian Political Science Review

Cova, Joshua (2025), ‘State intervention in low-wage work: Politics, social actors, and increased governmental control’, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Online First

Cova, Joshua (2024), ‘On industrial relations and inflation: a long-term perspective’, Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 1-22

Cova, Joshua (2023), ‘Politicizing the minimum wage: A multilingual text analysis of minimum wages in European electoral manifestos’, Journal of European Social Policy, 33(4), pp.469-483

Cova, Joshua (2023), ‘Back to the basics: Applying multilingual dictionary analysis to the Comparative Manifesto Project corpus’, Computational Communication Research, 5(2), pp.1-25

Cova, Joshua (2022), ‘Reconsidering the drivers of country-specific recommendations: The Commission’s ideological preferences on wage policies’, European Union Politics, 23(4), pp.639-661

Pre-prints and working papers

Cova, Joshua and Schmitz, Luuk (2024), ‘A primer for the use of classifier and generative large language models in social science research’, OSF Preprints

Other publications

Cova, Joshua (2023) ‘Book Review - Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation’, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis

Cova, Joshua (2022) ‘The EU directive on fair and adequate minimum wages: Low-pay work, collective bargaining and the prospects for income growth’, Jacques Delors Centre

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