Boom in the first quarter of 2021 for online job offers in Italy, with a growth of 40% compared to the same period of 2020 and 20% on 2019, the normal period before the pandemic.
This is what emerges from the 2021 report of the Foundation for Subsidiarity, in collaboration with Crisp - Research Center - University of Milan Bicocca, on sustainable work.
From January to March 2021 156,064 advertisements were published, identified in the Report, extracted from a panel of over twenty portals, which aggregate job offers on a continuous basis.
"Online advertisements have become the main channel for job vacancies and confirm the country's recovery", observes Giorgio Vittadini, president of the Foundation for Subsidiarity, "We expect a decisive boost from the gradual reopening of activities and the launch of the plan. national recovery and resilience ".
With 409,602 announcements, 2020 recorded a 5% decline compared to 2019. The pandemic caused a sharp contraction in the first 4 months, which recorded a drop of 22% (129,400 compared to 165,000 in the same period the year before) .
Research by the Foundation for Subsidiarity and Crisp confirms the geographical gap in the vitality of the labor market. In 2020, nearly three-quarters of the positions sought on the Internet concern jobs in the north (74%), 15% in the center and only 11% in the south and islands.
Among the sectors, the lion's share is made by manufacturing which originated a third of the advertisements (32.7%), followed by professional, administrative, technical and support services activities (24.7%) and by commerce (11.9 %).
Among the various professional figures, the greatest decline concerned managers, whose ads fell by 31% compared to 2019 (about 16,000 versus 23,000).