Giorgia Meloni gives a lecture at the German Chancellery. Berlin, February 3, 2023. CHRISTIAN MANG/REUTERS
Italy has job vacancies galore but few, if any, candidates. The government is focusing on training and making employment contracts more flexible.
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What employment policy when the economy no longer has enough candidates for work? This is the equation facing the Italian government of Giorgia Meloni. “Historically, there have never been so many jobs in Italynotes Francesco Seghezzi, president of the Adapt Foundation, a center for labor studies based in Modena. With 382,000 net job creations in 2022, after 602,000 in 2021, Italy will have created nearly 1 million jobs in two years. The employment rate rose at the end of December to 60.5%, the highest level since it was measured in 1977. And the unemployment rate fell to 7.8%, falling back to the level of June 2009, before the great crisis that bled Italy.
There were even 412,000 permanent contracts created in 2022. “With the decline in the working-age population, employers are now afraid of losing their human resources and are transforming short contracts into permanent contracts to ensure their loyalty”, explains Francesco Seghezzi
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