Is decline in employment the outcome or cause of crisis in Italy?

Emiliano Mandrone, Manuel Marocco and Debora Radicchia

No 7, Working Papers from ASTRIL - Associazione Studi e Ricerche Interdisciplinari sul Lavoro

Abstract: This article studies contractual flexibility, disguised employment and precarious work and gives an interpretation of these issues both through a legal and economic approach. It is necessary to clarify that as flexible workers we consider the following groups of individuals: 1) workers with temporary contracts, 2) independent self-employed who are comparable to subordinate employees 3)involuntary part-timers workers. Moreover, it is crucial to analyse these phenomena in a longitudinal framework to assess whether flexibility determines precariousness; in fact we define "precarious" as those who remain flexible worker after a period of 12 months (or other benchmark) and the flexible worker who loses their job within a period of 12 months. We asses that contractual flexibility and precarious work experienced in the last twenty years have reduced quality of work and labour productivity, causing a reduction in performance in Italy.

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