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INAPP Report 2024
Italy has resumed growth, both in terms of output and employment. Inflation, after a recent spike, now appears to be under control, but the macroeconomic outlook remains uncertain due to significant geopolitical instability. The current growth trajectory is hampered by misalignments between business demand and workforce characteristics, between education provision and skills needs, between wages and purchasing power, between male and female employment, and between the active and inactive population. The course of growth is influenced, more than ever, by the impact of demographic ageing on the working-age population and the sustainability of social spending, as well as by the impact of digital technology on the obsolescence of professions and labour mobility. It will not be enough to recalibrate interventions; a new approach, a new paradigm, will be required. Development will be shaped by the interaction of skills, investments, productivity, and new technologies. In this new context, scientific research must contribute to accurately interpreting changes and formulating proposals capable of addressing the challenges.
INAPP Report 2023
Uncertainties and pitfalls of an economic, political and warlike nature mark the history of the last year worldwide. The path to growth appears narrow and winding, not only in our country. New measures have been put in place, but it is still too early to grasp their effects. In the meantime, productivity and inflation increasingly mark the perimeter of a labour market in which old gaps (wage, employment, social, training, gender, skills) risk becoming rifts, while areas of unease overlap. Employment remains a pressing concern for many. For others, however, other aspects take on significance: times, places, quality of work. And new terms are becoming more and more commonly used: co-working, age management, resignation, care. The European Year of Skills 2023 has explicitly indicated one of the resources on which to focus. Otherwise, in its dramatic passing, it has brought people’s lives back to the forefront. They must be at the centre of future education, training, work, welfare policies.
INAPP Report 2022
In the wake of the health emergency, which has disrupted Italy’s economic and social systems, the systemic shortfalls of a labour market plagued by high unemployment have resurfaced. Despite the positive changes brought by the surge in new technologies and new organisational arrangements, low wages and atypical employment have also become more prominent. Professional training for different types of occupation may help, but there is a general gap in participation and an overarching misalignment between existing skills and the needs of the job market. In this context, societal groups remain more exposed to the growing risk of hardship and poverty, while inequality increases and welfare systems are in need of reform. This is compounded by an exceptionally unfavourable economic situation that further exacerbates the chronic societal challenges that require structural interventions.
INAPP Report 2021
In recent months, the job market has undergone a ‘stress test’ that has highlighted critical issues and structural weaknesses, opening deep wounds that will need time to heal. Layoffs, non-renewals of fixed-term contracts, challenges of self-employment, low income (atypical work included) for large segments of the population, that has led to an increase in numbers of those receiving the Citizenship Income, with women and the youth taking a greater tall in the population. The crisis resulting from the pandemic has affected social living too: education, among all age groups, has been negatively impacted; interpersonal relationships have been strained due to lockdown measures, new forms of living and working conditions that in some cases have led to social marginalisation, housing crisis and in many cases due to the virus to the loss of loved ones; people in need of medical assistance and disabled had to endure long periods of isolation and fear.