Decline for collaborators (-16,14%), professionals increase (+ 29,6%). Women decreasing among collaborators and increasing among professionals
The observatory on para-subordinate workers was updated, which reports the trend of the 2015-2020 period of information on professionals and collaborators enrolled in the separate management.
The total number of taxpaying parasubordinate workers (professionals plus collaborators) went from 1.434.856 in 2015 to 1.351.081 in 2020.
The data shows a reduction in employees from 2015 to 2016 (-17,4%), a stabilization in 2017 (+ 0,1%), an increase between 2017 and 2018 (+ 2,4%), a slight growth between 2018 and 2019 (+ 0,8%) and again a reduction between 2019 and 2020 (-1,7%).
Professionals, on the other hand, recorded a growth of 2015% from 2020 to 29,6.
These variations are due both to the dynamics of the labor market and to interventions by the legislator. First of all, the Fornero reform (Law 92/2012), which introduced restrictions on coordinated and continuous collaborations; subsequently, the Jobs Act (Legislative Decree 81/2015), which - in the private sector - limited collaborations to "project" ones, allowing coordinated and continuous collaborations to survive only in the public sphere. Furthermore, an effect on the trends in the number of collaborators and professionals is also due to the continuous variations in the contribution rates.
The share of women decreased in the type of collaborators, while it increased in that of professionals: in 2015 they were 39,1% among collaborators and 41,9% among professionals; in 2020 these values are respectively 36,8% and 45,3%.
With regard to age, in the period 2015-2020 the aggregate figure of collaborators and professionals shows that the under 14,1s have decreased by 30%, the workers between 5,9 and 30 years old by 59%, while for those from 60 onwards there was a slight growth (+ 2,4%).
From a geographical point of view, between 2015 and 2020 the decrease compared to the three major macro-areas is as follows: -5,6% in the North, -7,5% in the Center, -4,3% in the South.
For collaborators there is a continuous growth in average income, while for professionals there is a slight reduction until 2017, a slight recovery in 2018 and 2019 and a significant decrease in 2020 due to the effects of the pandemic.
In the report, further detailed variables are available, for the type of collaborators only, such as the number of clients: 47,7% of collaborators are exclusive and single-client, with an average annual income of less than 20 thousand euros, and the average income of men is almost double that of women.