Notes: the impact of precarious employment

From the very first information to Sky it seems that work was supposed to be discussed, but since news reigns, it will almost certainly not be discussed. So I will resume the topic here using this graph:

(which we had already seen here ) and I assist the reading with this table, remembering that the Jobs Act was approved in December 2014:

Compared to then, temporary workers have increased by about 358,000 units, but total workers have increased by about 2,407,000 units, and therefore the ratio has remained unchanged at 14%. Too bad that after the approval of the Jobs Act it had risen to almost 18% (with a peak in 2018). So those who talk about an "increase in precarious employment" are not saying something false, for goodness sake: "temporary" workers have increased, in fact. On the other hand, since employed people have increased in general, those who claim that in reality this government has brought (or, if you prefer, that circumstances have brought) the incidence of precarious employment back to that prior to the approval of the Jobs Act are not saying something false either. Among the various circumstances, it would be dishonest not to consider the tax incentives for the stabilization of workers.

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This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2025/06/appunti-lincidenza-del-precariato.html on Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:37:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.