This paper contributes to the literature on changes in the employment structure, focusing on the job quality created and destroyed in Italy and in its regions in the years 2011-17.
Italy experienced a polarisation pattern skewed towards lower-paid jobs. This pattern is the result of diverging trends across Italy: while the central and northern regions are responsible for the growth not only in the share of workers in low quality occupations but also in higher quality ones, southern Italy contributed exclusively to the increase in low-paid jobs. Within each macro-area, the contribution of different regions to the total trends was heterogeneous, in particular in the South.
