Trento will play host on Saturday, 4 July 2009 to a conference organized by the Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (IRVAPP) with Senator Tiziano Treu

(m.l.) Has Italian legislation on temporary contracts produced positive consequences for young people who are entering the employment market? Has it created faster access to the working world through the use of flexible employment contracts, but with the subsequent transition to stable employment relationships? Or has it trapped people in long-term uncertain employment positions? 
These are a few of the questions that will be discussed at the conference being hosted in Trento at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Via S. Croce 77, organized by the Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (IRVAPP).
The workshop will begin at 11:00 am, opened with introductory addresses given by the President of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler Andrea Zanotti, the Chancellor of University of Trento Davide Bassi, and the President of the Autonomous Province of Trento, Lorenzo Dellai.
Other speakers participating are Ugo Trivellato (IRVAPP and University of Padua) with a report on “The short-term effects of temporary contracts on the job market,” and Antonio Schizzerotto (IRVAPP and University of Trento) who will be discussing “The Treu Reform and contractual mobility in Italy: comparing the cohorts of entry in the first job experience.”
Tiziano Treu (Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee for Labour and Social Security of the Senate), Giuliano Cazzola (Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee for Public and Private Labour of the Chamber of Deputies) and Paolo Sestito (Deputy Director of the Department for Structural Economic Analysis of Banca d'Italia) will also be taking part.

Following
 The abstract of the conference
 Description of the IRVAPP
 Biography of Tiziano Treu
 Conference schedule

Abstract of the conference
An evaluation of the effects of the “Treu Package” and the subsequent Italian legislation on temporary employment will be the focus of the conference “TEMPORARY JOB CONTRACTS: TRAPS OR STARTING POINTS?” organized by the Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies. It used to be that dependent employment and independent entrepreneurship represented the two categories encompassing nearly all employment positions on the labour market. However, in recent decades, we have witnessed a multiplication of increasingly flexible employment contracts that are less burdensome to the employer.
One example are closed-ended contracts, training and internships, apprenticeships, temp work, single project contracts, etc., that were designed to promote processes to bring together supply and demand on the employment market and, as a result, to curtain two fairly widespread trends in our country: unemployment among young people and the undocumented labour market.
Although the consequences of making employment more flexible for individuals has long been the centre of public attention in Italy, it has not been the subject of many specific studies. In response to this situation, the conference organized by IRVAPP proposes to stimulate new thoughts on the subject through the presentation, by the IRVAPP researchers, of the results of the two studies that have used their own methods of impact assessment. 

Biography of Tiziano Treu (taken from http://www.tizianotreu.org/biografia.asp)
Tiziano Treu was born in Vicenza in 1939.
He earned a university degree in Law from the University of Milan (November 1961).
Treu was a teaching assistant in labour law in the same university until 1968.
He was a Harkness Fellow at Cornell University, Industrial and Labor Relations School and at the University of Chicago Law School from 1962 to 1964.
He became a tenured lecturer in law in 1968 and in the same year he was hired to teach labour law at the University of Pavia (School of Law) and the Cattolica University (School of Economics). He was appointed as a full professor of Labour Law from 1971 to 1988 at the University of Pavia (School of Law) and was appointed to the same position at the Cattolica University.
In 1988, Treu became a full professor at the School of Law of the Cattolica University of Milan.
He was a visiting Scholar at the Sophia University of Tokyo in 1974, and visiting professor at the National University of Mogadishu in 1973, the School of Law at the University of Louvain (Belgium) in the fall of 1985; and at the School of Law of Paris X in 1986.
Throughout his academic career, he worked in close partnership with the labour unions (in particular, CISL) as well as in the various international labour law and industrial relations associations. From 1990 to 1992, Treu was a member of the Guarantee Commission on the Right to Strike.
In 1992 and 1993, he was also an external Alderman in the Assembly of the Municipality of Milan holding responsibilities for institutional affairs, education, labour economics, and social issues. In 1995, he was the Secretary of Labour and Social Security in Lamberto Dini’s Cabinet.
In 1996, he was reconfirmed to his former position by the Prime Minister Romano Prodi while in 1998, D’Alema appointed him Secretary of Transportation and Navigation.
Treu was elected a member of the Italian Senate in 2001, in the 11th Standing Committee (Labour, Social Security) and member of the Control Committee of Social Security and Services Operators Authority.
He was re-elected to the Senate in 2006, as Chairman of the 11th Standing Committee – Labour and Social Security.
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TEMPORARY JOB CONTRACTS: TRAPS OR STARTING POINTS?
Impact assessment of the Treu Reform and other laws on temporary employment
Saturday 4 July 2009 – 11:00 am
 
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Aula Grande)
 
Trento, Via Santa Croce 77

Greetings of the authorities
Andrea Zanotti
President of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Davide Bassi
Chancellor of University of Trento
Lorenzo Dellai
President of the Autonomous Province of Trento

Addresses
Ugo Trivellato
IRVAPP and University of  Padua
“The short-term effects of temporary contracts on the job market”
 Antonio Schizzerotto
IRVAPP and University of  Trento
"The Treu Reform and contractual mobility in Italy: comparing the cohorts of entry in the first job experience”

Participating in the discussion
Tiziano Treu
Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee for Labour
 and Social Security of the Senate
Giuliano Cazzola
Vice-Chairman of the  Standing Committee  for
Public and Private  Labour of the Chamber of Deputies
Paolo Sestito
Deputy Director of the Department for Structural
Economic Analysis of Banca d'Italia

For further information please contact
Istituto per la Ricerca Valutativa sulle Politiche Pubbliche
Sede operativa: Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Via S. Croce 77 - 38122 Trento, Italy
Tel. +39 0461 210242 - Fax. +39 0461 210240 e. mail: http://irvapp.fbk.eu