The accommodation and food services and entertainment and sport activities are the worst hit by the economic crisis that followed the COVID-19 pandemic. The possibility for these workers to find new jobs might be limited due to low competence and skill levels. We study the employment transitions...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro fornisce un quadro descrittivo dei recenti flussi di richiedenti asilo in Italia e nell’Unione Europea. Dopo aver esaminato le dinamiche degli ingressi irregolari e delle richieste di protezione internazionale, si analizzano le differenze a livello europeo...

In this paper we present important correlations between immigration and labor market outcomes of native workers in the US. We use data on local labor markets, states and regions from the Census and American Community Survey over the period 1970-2010. We first look at simple correlations and then...

We analyse the content of Italian occupations operating in about 600 sectors with a focus on the dimensions that expose workers to contagion risks during the COVID-19 epidemics. To do so we leverage extremely detailed and granular information from ICP, the Italian equivalent of O*Net. We find...