Svimez: “Recovery passes from putting the job question back to the center”

The economic and social recovery of the country system can only take place by putting the ‘question’ of work back at the center, according to Svimez, who published the new issue of the Economic Journal of Southern Italy (Rem) – Economic Journal of Mezzogiorno – labor market, politics and the South. “The policies for the efficiency and the relaunch of the labor market must therefore return to assume a role of primary importance within the new economic policy strategy that will see the country committed in the coming years to the transformation and modernization of the national production system. , in the face of the great transitions, digital and ecological, and the new geo-political and macroeconomic turbulence “, the presentation continues.” It is above all on the labor market that the long-term system inefficiencies have been discharged up to now. The Covid-19 shock hit a national labor market already placed on a divergent path from other European countries due to the profound changes in the characteristics of employment and in the quality of work itself, which occurred in the twenty years preceding the outbreak of the pandemic. : growth of poor and precarious work, increase in the working poor, widening of gender and territorial gaps, with serious negative consequences on the levels of poverty and social exclusion. It was certainly the South that was most seriously affected, always stuck on employment rates much lower than in the Center-North and with a much wider gender gap. And it is therefore above all for the South that the objective of a strong relaunch of labor policies takes on the greatest importance “, he underlines.