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JUN. JUL 2018 VIII accepted in the absence of full-time job opportunities. According to the latest ISTAT Report, women are the absolute drivers of employment growth (+1.6% against +0.9%), but their percentage of the total employed (48.9%) is 13 points lower than the European average (62.4%). The overall picture looks good for Ho.Re.Ca. workers. WOMEN, MEN AND WORK: THE CASE OF NORDIC COUNTRIES In recent decades, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have increasingly invested in subsidised childcare and paid parental leave for mothers and fathers. Employers and trade unions have allowed workers to opt for flexible and family-friendly working hours. This package of measures has helped to reduce gender gaps in employment, making them now the smallest in the OECD-Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (4% compared to an average of 12%). Mothers are more likely to work full- time, couples tend to share paid and unpaid work more fairly. The family- friendly policies introduced over the last 50 years, and the resulting increase in female employment, have stimulated GDP growth per capita between 10% and 20% according to the OECD 2018 report (current GDP would be €1,300 lower in Finland and €7,600 lower in Norway, if female employment rates remained at their previous levels). In Italy, too, it should be possible to start again with access to municipal nurseries, implementing company nurseries, supporting policies for the sharing of care, parental leave and paternity responsibilities. WHAT’S HAPPENING IN OUR INDUSTRY? In 2017, the increase in employment in the tertiary sector (+1.5%) involved, among other things, services related to the hotel and catering sector. Also, in terms of contracts, the number of employees is increasing (+2.1%), while the number of independent employees is decreasing (-1.9%). While irregular employment increased, temporary employees (+298 thousand, +12.3%) residing mainly in the central-northern regions and young people up to 34 years of age, continued to reduce staff (-46,000 in the last year). Overall, 6 out of 10 irregulars have a contract with a duration of less than one year; 17% have a one-year contract; 1 out of 4 irregulars is employed in the distribution, hotel and catering sectors. Almost 1/3 of irregular workers are between 35 and 49 years old, and 36.3% of the total are parent workers. And if it is true that part-time employees exceed 4.3 million, in 3 out of 4 cases they are women, or 73.0%. If we want this issue to leave the women’s sector and into equality, and not into an illusion, then perhaps we should be talking about work and family, about men and women. Everyone is a person. AT PAGE 28 AT THE TABLE I’ll start again in Spain The employment rate in Europe is higher than that within our own country. This is a fact known by Ilario Rigolin, an Italian entrepreneur, a prophet outside his native land unconventional, who in Spain has maintained an all-Italian approach and appeal. By Riccardo Sada Spain is a leading international tourist destination and it’s the country’s largest source of income. In recent years, the Madrid government has established itself as the world’s third largest tourist power in the sector after France and the United States, with an estimate of between 7% and 8% of international tourism. In Spain both foreign and national tourism has as its main destinations the coasts and beaches, invaded every year by millions of tourists in the summer. It is therefore better for Italians to go and work abroad. The Eurostat report (which is the Community Statistical Office) “EU citizens in other EU Member States”, namely European citizens in other EU States. The most popular seaside resorts are the locomotive of the economy. The national daily El Pais pointed out that the data of the IMF isn’t very reliable (also because they contrast with that - more detailed from an analytical point of view - of Eurostat, the European statistical agency, which instead provides data that sees Italian GDP per capita exceed Spanish GDP by about 5 percent). Who to believe? In the meantime, there is someone who has anticipated the times and has shown himself to be truly visionary, transferring to Spain. This is Ilario Rigolin, entrepreneur, lover of cooking, passionate about healthy and genuine ingredients and at the same time working hard to make ends meet. Never wavering, often insisting on formulas sometimes known to be approximate, in the land of paella, but in the end so simple, performing and rewarding, MAGAZINE