Strengthening Active Labour Market Policies in Italy
This report on Italy is the sixth country study published in a series of reports looking
into how policies connect people with jobs. It discusses how active labour market
policies in Italy are performing both on the national and the regional level, focussing
particularly on the reform process in the system of public employment services initiated
by the Jobs Act. The ongoing reform has good potential to improve the performance
of employment services in Italy, particularly if the stakeholders of the system cooperate
to establish a binding performance management framework and develop national IT infrastructure
supporting the tasks of the local offices to serve jobseekers and employers. The National
Agency for Active Labour Market Policies has a key role in encouraging the cooperation
between the stakeholders, leading the development of new tools and methodologies and
thus supporting the local employment offices to implement the new service model. Besides
the general reform process, the review looks at some specific approaches regarding
providing employment services in Italy – using jobseeker profiling tools to target
active labour market policies; increasing quality and capacity of employment services
by contracting out employment services to private service providers; and reaching
out to employers and advancing demand-side services.
Published on May 15, 2019
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