English Abstract: This study focuses on the discrepancies in the data on employment trends that have recently emerged …, while according to the latter, employment remained substantially stable in the first months of the year and only started to … only contribute by one third to the increase in average employment in the period; these contracts, if they continue over …

The fall in employment and the increase in unemployment rates in Italy in 2009 were fairly modest, given the sharp drop … caution, however. Firstly, employment trends as measured by Italian labour force survey may understate the decline in total … employment if, as seems plausible, a lag exists between the entry of immigrants into the country and their registration. Secondly …