Italian Labour Market reforms and gender inequalities

The reforms of the Italian job market occurred over a period of 18 years since 1997. The effects of reforms on the occupational levels are complicated to be depicted because of the overlapping with those of the unpredictable episodes of the global crises. In this paper, we analyse the economic statistical effects on the labour forces of the governmental interventions. Over a period of 21 years, starting from 2004, we present a partial analysis based on the I.Stat data warehouse that provides a first and aggregated information on the labour forces. In this first attempt of analysis, we found out that the Italian entrepreneurial system reacted positively to all reforms in a gender dimension. Therefore, somehow reforms preserved the female employment for some aspects, and restarted the male employment for some others.