Abstract

A wider flexibility of labour is generally considered a possible source for higher employment. In the recent Italian experience different tools have been adopted, generating various kinds of emerging employment: on one hand, private managers of cultural services have hired hundreds of flexible professionals; on the other, publicly supported agencies have given permanent jobs to previously unstable workers. Such experiences are still evolving, and although partially inconsistent with each other they prove able to generate new employment and to elicit entrepreneurial initiatives, widening the range of opportunities for access in the cultural labour market.