Resumen de Mezzo secolo di primi lavori dei giovani. Per una storia del mercato del lavoro italiano

Giovanna Fullin, Emilio Reyneri

• English

  The article investigates how the employment condition of young people changed in Italy in the last fifty years (1945-2009) focusing on the first job experiences. The analysis takes into consideration both the sides of the labour market: the changes regarding the labour supply but also those concerning the labour demand, highlighting the changes in the distribution of job opportunities by industry and stressing the role of the public sector. The variations in the diffusion of non-permanent and of irregular jobs can be attributed, in some cases, to the public policies and, in same others, to the industrialization and terziarization pracesses that took place in different periods. The article focuses also on the decline of the return to education for young people entering the labour rnarket for the first time and on the role of the family background in terms of protection against job instability. The condusion provides some reflections concerning the speed of the recent changes that took place in the Italian labour market. Taking into consideration that speed is crucial in order to analyse the mismatching and the process of adjustment of youth's expectations. The analyses are based on longitudinal data pravided by ISTAT (Vite familiari e soggetti sociali) on a sample of 43.850 individuals.

• italiano

  Introduzione. - Tendenze e cicli: una periodizzazione del mercato del lavoro italiano, - La fonte dei dati: pregi e limiti di un'indagine longitudinale retrospettiva. - Come è cambiata I'offerta di lavoro giovanile. - Come è cambiata la domanda di lavoro per i giovani. - Le due dimensioni della riduzione del rendimento dell'istruzione. - L'esperienza dei primi lavori da una generazione all'altra.