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

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  • Emiliano Mandrone
  • Manuel Marocco
  • Debora Radicchia

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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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  • Emiliano Mandrone & Manuel Marocco & Debora Radicchia, "undated". "Is decline in employment the outcome or cause of crisis in Italy?," Working Papers 0007, ASTRIL - Associazione Studi e Ricerche Interdisciplinari sul Lavoro.
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