The real wages to be improved in Italy are the high ones, not the low ones

On the one hand, there is the issue of precariousness which affects 2-3 million people (to which is added undeclared work in many forms). On the other hand, there is an entirely different issue relating to the growth of wages and careers, of young and old, who work full-time. There are few management positions and they are low paid

The approval of the labor law leads us to a more general reflection on the labor market in Italy. The problem of income inequality in Italy can be divided into two different parts that require different interventions. In Italy, the widening of inequalities is due to hours worked and not to hourly wages. In other words, inequality in compensation of employees does not increase among workers who have continuous careers and full-time jobs but has increased because over the last 30 years many employees with precarious contracts and above all many part-time contracts have entered the workforce It is therefore essential not to confuse the plans: there is a theme of precariousness that affects 2-3 million people (to which is added undeclared work in many forms) and there is a completely different theme that concerns the growth of wages and careers of young and less young people who work full time.