Boeri agenda for work

Now that the Istat methodology, as Andrea Garnero explained yesterday in these columns, takes note of how the employment reality has been distorted by Covid (about one million fewer employees), it is necessary to think about structural adjustments to the social safety nets and to the labor market to make them more suitable to face the emergency first and then the recovery. In particular, to give an answer to women and young people, who have suffered the hardest repercussions due to their “fragile” contractual positions, and to workers in the sectors that will undergo a transformation. “Nothing will be the same”, is what many say in part as an observation and in part as a wish, given that the Next Generation Eu envisages an ecological and digital transition of the economy. But in the meantime we are leaving everything as it was. To gear up for this step, also thanks to the help of European resources that make it possible to make reforms that are no longer “at no cost”, we can start with the three proposals put forward by the economist Tito Boeri on Repubblica.