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WATCH THE VIDEO SERVICE. A few days before the May 1st holiday, the CGIA wanted to measure the quality of the job market in Friuli Venezia Giulia which ranks 6th at a national level.
A few days before the May 1st holiday, the CGIA wanted to measure the quality of the labor market present in Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG), arriving at the conclusion that, in Italy, the easternmost region of the country ranks 6th place at the national level. A position close to the most virtuous regions of the country which, however, precedes the result obtained by two important regions in the North, such as Emilia Romagna and Liguria. The score of this analysis was obtained by comparing 8 indicators, mainly of a qualitative nature, which were “recovered” from the BES (Sustainable Fair Wellbeing) report, presented about ten days ago by Istat.
Before analyzing the data from the CGIA research, in this report the artisans from Mestre illustrated the trend in employment in FVG in recent years. The change that emerged is positive. Compared to 2019 (pre-pandemic year), in 2023 there were 12 thousand more employees in the smallest region of the Northeast (+2.3 percent), although in the last year the increase was slightly negative and equal to – 1,000 employees (-0.1 percent). Given these results, in 2023 the overall number of employed people in FVG was equal to 520,000 units.
At the provincial level, the increases in jobs affected, in particular, Udine and Trieste. In the Friulian capital, for example, compared to 2019, the employment increase was equal to 7,700 units (+3.5 percent), while in the regional capital the number of people increased by 3,400 units (+3.5 percent). In these last 4 years only Pordenone has recorded a score preceded by a minus sign. In the last year, however, only Trieste saw an increase in the number of employed people: +1,500 units (+1.5 percent).
As we said above, analyzing the results that emerge from the reading of the 8 indicators on the quality of work present in the 21 regions of Italy, FVG is positioned in 6th place: Lombardy, the Province of Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Veneto, the Autonomous Province of Trento and Piedmont. FVG has the same final score achieved by Valle d’Aosta. The indicators examined were the following:
1 – low paid employees;
2 – over-educated employed;
3 – employed with fixed-term jobs for at least 5 years;
4 – rates of fatal accidents and permanent disability;
5 – non-regular employed;
6 – satisfaction with the work done;
7 – perception of employment insecurity;
8 – involuntary part time.
Well, in this grid only in two cases the outcome reported to the FVG is not particularly satisfactory: it concerns the number of over-educated employees and the satisfaction with the work performed. In the first case, FVG is placed in 14th place in the national ranking with 29.8 percent of those interviewed who reported having a higher educational qualification than the one most possessed to carry out that profession out of the total number of employed people. In the second case, however, the easternmost region of the country is in 10th place in the national ranking. “Only” 53.5 percent of those interviewed expressed an average satisfaction score between 8 and 10 for the following aspects of the work performed: earnings, career opportunities, number of hours worked, job stability, home-work distance, interest in the job.
Although we can count on these positive results, there are still critical issues that we struggle to overcome. The main one remains the low employment rate, particularly among women. Not to mention that, unfortunately, we have historically had lower average salary levels than the main EU regions, due to a very low level of labor productivity and a still excessively high NEET rate.
