Getting Skills Right in Italy

Posted by Glenda Quintini. Italy has only just started to recover from the Global Financial Crisis with moderate improvements in both economic growth and labour market performance. While the crisis put an extraordinary stress on Italy’s productive system and its labour market, some of the causes behind the current economic weakness are deeply rooted in the Italian economic and social fabric and started well before the global financial crisis. Of key importance amongst these is the distance between the skills developed in the education system and those required by the productive sector. More...