Title: The system of social shock absorbers in Italy and the European framework

Date: 06/13/2009

Subject: The Author highlights the attempts to reform the sector over the past years and reconstructs the current situation of the system of social shock absorbers in Italy, denouncing their irrationality, iniquity and inadequacy. The Author then recalls the guidelines of European origin and in particular the common principles of flexicurity to which Italy should adapt itself by setting up a universalistic and public system guaranteeing the unemployment benefit, together with the right to basic income for the protection of the citizens’ vital needs

Original language: Italian

Classification: Solidarity - Art. 34 Decent existence

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