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Table 7.5: Job search strategies of workers in Italy, by citizenship, 2010
Citizenship:
Italian Foreign: EU15 Foreign: NMS EU27 Foreign: non EU27
Employed and unemployed workers
Ever had contacts with a Public Employment Office? 39.67 21.76 22.01 21.87
Employed workers
Main channel used to find current job?
Public Employment Office
2.80
0.52
0.81
1.36
Newspapers
13.36
8.37
1.10
1.26
Internet
0.93
8.78
0.68
0.32
Direct contact with employer
22.64 18.64
16.4
14.53
Relatives/Friends
38.95 43.63
73.35
70.75
Private temporary workers agency
2.34
4.43
3.36
5.69
Previous internship
7.66
3.00
2.37
3.20
Suggested by school / university
2.53
4.20
0.20
0.92
Other
8.74
8.44
1.72
1.98
Total
100
100
100
100
Unemployed workers
Contacts with a temporary employment agency in the last 6 months? 21.92 62.20
22.22
45.11
In the last 4 weeks, did you…
…have contacts with the Public Employment Office to find work?
28.94 10.40
17.23
31.48
...take a test, an interview or an examination with a private employer? 33.66
0.72
32.15
31.11
...take written/oral examination for a public competition?
3.65
0.72
0.61
0.30
...send applications to take a public competition?
7.51
0.00
0.29
0.81
...did you study advertisements in newspapers or journals?
58.66 90.96
61.67
61.60
...insert or answer advertisements in newspapers or journals?
24.12 63.90
22.05
29.70
...send applications and/or CVs directly to private employers?
68.80 77.71
60.81
54.41
...ask relatives, friends, acquaintances, trade unions to find a job?
82.25 94.37
90.13
92.26
...did you look for job on Internet?
47.10 82.85
25.65
31.15
...have contacts with a temporary employment agency?
18.54 22.81
20.73
42.27
...look for land, premises, equipment to start a business?
2.00
0.00
0.00
0.10
...look for permits, licences, financial resources to start a business?
0.79
0.00
0.00
0.00
...do anything else to find work?
0.56
0.00
0.00
0.26
Note: Author’s calculations from LFS data. Year2010. The table reports the share of interviewees answering positively to each question. The question for
unemployed workers “In the last 4 weeks, did you…” allowed multiple answers.
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