I Centri per l’impiego nei nuovi orientamenti delle politiche attive per il lavoro: vincoli o risorse?

• Main Authors: Maurizio Avola, Laura Azzolina, Marco Cuttone
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Firenze University Press 2017-03-01
• Series: Cambio
• Subjects: Public Employment Services; Active Labour Market Policies
• Online Access: https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/1402

In line with recent labour policy reforms, as well as the European programme known as Youth Guarantee, in Italy public employment services have gained a new centrality in active labour policies. However, public employment services in Italy have been only partially modernised and many critical issues still persist. As a result, a debate on the capacity of employment services to play efficiently an active role in labour policies supply has developed. This paper analyses employment centres in 4 areas in Sicily (one of the weakest regions in Italy in terms of institutional efficiency on labour policies), and their performance in the implementation of Youth Guarantee. The work shows the organizational change, the improved relational capacity and the institutional growth following this experience.