Italian business and the labor market

This conference focussed on relaunching Italy’s economy in terms of productivity, training and flexibility. The debate revolved around the following issues: those measures best suited to making the system more competitive, new policies to improve human resources, the means to better integrate immigrants and women in the working population, proposals to lower labor costs and to increase flexibility in the labor market, the welfare state, and labor protection laws. Particular attention was dedicated to how best, in a European framework, to ensure social cohesion while modernizing the Italian labor market.