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03 July 2021Boom 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.

The quarterly historical record was thus reached.



From the beginning of 2015 to March 2021, there were about 2 million 650,000 advertisements on the Internet. "Online advertisements have become the main channel for job offers 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 national recovery and resilience plan".



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) In the following eight months (May - December), however, there was a rebound of 5% (276,000 offers against 262,000 of the  similar period of 2019).



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), while searches for service employees increased by 13% (121,600 versus 107,000) and 8% were employed in the production of goods (75,000 compared to 69,000).