Alcune considerazioni sul mercato del lavoro italiano alla luce della ricostruzione delle serie storiche territoriali per il mercato del lavoro, 1861-2011.

This note is intended to provide an initial assessment of the potentialities of the data reconstruction work, relating to labour market series, carried out as part of the SVIMEZ volume for the Sesquicentennial of the Unification of Italy. To this end, we develop some considerations on a key feature of the Italian labour market, its dualism. Then we identify and illustrate some salient developments occurred over the last thirty years: the increasing importance of tertiary employment and of female labour force. We describe finally some features of the reconstructed statistics for wages, unemployment, vacancies and employment and assess the impact of structural changes on dualism. The actual methods of data reconstruction are described in the Appendix.