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Migration and labour market: The case of Ukrainian women working in care sector in Italy
Luisa Salaris, Nicola Tedesco

##manager.scheduler.building##: Velodromo - Bocconi University
##manager.scheduler.room##: N04
Date: 2019-01-25 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Last modified: 2018-12-26

Abstract


In a context of important demographic transformation and cultural changes, care migration has sharply grown in Europe, encouraged by structural deficit of labour market and developing as a response for workers’ shortage in formal and informal welfare systems. This study -through the analysis of Italian “Rilevazione continua sulle forze lavoro, RCFL (Labour Force Survey) data during last ten years - aims to describe the main features and possible implications of the presence of care workers in Italian labour market, in particular the focus is on Ukrainian women working in care sector who have been chosen as case study. That of care in Italy is a growing sector (+19% of employed women between 2007 and 2016). However, RCFL data shows that this increase has been almost exclusively filled by immigrant. Within this frame, Ukrainian women, despite, recording high employment rates, are highly segregated, both vertically and horizontally, have difficulties to integrate and experience job-education mismatch. In conclusion the article discusses possible relevant issues for migration and integration policies.


Keywords


Ukraine, women, care migration, Italy, labour market, integration