First job: here’s who and where they hire the most in Italy

The work, for young people, it is, depending on the case, a mirage or an obstacle course. If it is still too early to understand the upcoming developments caused by recent scenarios, some reasoning is already possible on the situation of those who are now entering the world of work. Where the latest data from the Ministry of Labor (referring to 2021) speak of 1,146,113 (53.5% male, 46.5% female) first hires. The significant fact is that the first hires are up by 14.2% compared to the previous year (+ 16.4% men, + 11.7% women). In particular, more is hired in industry (+ 34.4%) and in services (+ 13.9%), while in the agricultural sector there is a decline (-14.5%).
In particular, the first hires in hotels and restaurants are increasing (+ 74%), in the sector other public, social and personal services (+ 47.2%), in that of transport, communications, financial activities and other business services (+ 31.4%) and del trade and repairs (+ 23.5%).

Which contracts: what has changed from the previous year

Permanent contracts dropped significantly (-17.5%), while all the others increase. In particular: 55.2% of the first hires in 2021 are on a fixed-term basis21% for an indefinite period, 10% for apprenticeships, 9.4% for contracts in the “Other” category and finally 4.4% for collaboration contracts.

Indefinite period: -17.5%
Fixed term: 20.1%
Apprenticeship: 43%
Collaboration contracts 17.6%
Other: 71%

In which sectors do you hire the most?

In 74.7% of cases, the new hires are concentrated in the sector of services17.8% inindustry and 7.5% inagriculture. More specifically: in services, 18.5% of new hires concern transport, communications, financial activities and other business services; 17.8% the hotels and restaurants; 12.5% ​​le public administrations, education and health; 10.5% on trade and repairs; 8.9% on other public, social and personal services and 6.4% relates to the sector other public, social and personal services.

First job: recruiting at the regional level

50% of the first hires are concentrated in north (increased by 19.9%), 29.5% at south (+ 5%) 20.5% al center.

Piedmont: 6.3%
Valle d’Aosta: 0.3%
Lombardy: 18.3%
Bolzano: 1.6%
Trento: 1.3%
Veneto: 8.8%
Friuli: 2.1%
Liguria: 2.5%
Emilia Romagna: 8.7%
Tuscany: 6.1%
Umbria: 1.3%
Marche 2.6%
Lazio: 10.5%
Abruzzo: 2.1%
Molise: 0.4%
Campania: 8.5%
Puglia: 6.0%
Basilicata: 0.8%
Calabria: 2.5%
Sicily: 6.9%
Sardinia: 2.3%

Educational qualifications: which ones go up and which ones go down

Most new hires own a upper secondary education diploma that allows access to university. This is followed, in order: middle school, no qualifications, degree. In reality, the greatest positive variations concern workers with first level university masters (68.9%) and with upper secondary education diploma that allows access to university (34.9%), while they are recorded negative changes for workers with a specialization diploma (-3.3%) and for workers with no qualifications (-13.8%). However, it should be borne in mind that the first hiring of workers with a first level university master’s degree quantitatively represent a less significant case history than the others.

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