(Finance) – As part of the events organized to celebrate the 125th anniversary of INPSthe annual conference was held yesterday in Rome VisitInps, during which some of the works carried out by academic researchers thanks to the VisitInps Scholars program were illustrated. Topics of great interest for the policy debate were addressed such as role of collective bargainingboth first and second level, the outsourcing of company branches, concentration and monopsony in the labor market, the flexibilisation of the labor market both in relation to the dynamics of wages and productivity and with respect to the issue of fertility and, finally, the role of family businesses. All the works were discussed by researchers from institutions such as the Bank of Italy and Roman universities.
The professor Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University), among the best-known economists in the international context on the topic of
globalization, presented work on the mobility and productivity of managers depending on their current and past experience in companies active in international trade.
At the end of the day a meeting was held round table, moderated by Maurizio Franzinion the topic, at the center of the current debate, of the mismatch in the labor market and the role of intermediation platforms between job supply and demand.
The teacher’s introductory speech Michele Belot (Cornell University) highlighted the most recent developments in the literature on the topic of mismatch, the various field experiences of other European countries and the role of artificial intelligence in improving the effectiveness of matching job supply and demand.
There Dr. Paola Nicastro, director of Arpal Umbria, illustrated the strengths and critical issues that the regions currently face on this topic. The Doctor Pierpaolo Bonanni (INPS) outlined the salient features of the SIISL intermediation platform, whose creation was recently entrusted to INPS and which aims to use interconnected databases and artificial intelligence algorithms, including generative ones. The centrality for the Institute to fulfill this new challenge in the best possible way was also underlined by General Director of INPS Vincenzo Caridi.
Christmas Forlani (Ministry of Labour) e Thomas Nannicini (European University Institute) highlighted criticalities that the country system must address by focusing on the opportunities offered by an efficient intermediation platform in order to create the conditions for a structural change in the performance of the Italian labor market.
The INPS Extraordinary Commissioner, Micaela Gelerahe concluded the day by underlining the importance of the VisitInps program, in which the Institute’s data are made available to academic and institutional researchers to provide new detailed knowledge to policy makers regarding the effectiveness of the policies introduced. Finally, Commissioner Gelera placed emphasis on the richness offered by the dissemination of the same academic contents in different ways, capable of generating greater interaction between the world of research and that of economic policy choices.