BOOKS BY FEDERICO CHICCHI

Irregular and flexible work. Results of an empirical research on youth unemployment in Reggio Calabria In this essay authors analyse the social behaviors of youth unemployment in Reggio Calabria, with specific reference to their irregular work experiences and their dispositions to emigrate toward contexts where it is easier to find a regular job. The qualitative empirical data collected show clearly as the high level of flexibility spread into the Italian labour market tends to discourage the propensity to emigration toward northern labour market. That is mainly for fear of trying out situations of job insecurity in country where they cannot activate their informal supports of social protection. In this perspective data also show as the family plays a very important role regarding the different coping strategies activated by youth unemployment to mediate the subjective risk of social exclusion.