Good morning everyone, my name is Nicole Roncarà.

I am 18 years old and today I would like to discuss the employment rate in Emilia Romagna in previous years.

My group and I analysed cultural offers, healthcare, migration flows and technology. We made a comparative analysis between the rate of employment in Emilia Romagna and the Italian one to find out the field which more needs improvement.

First, I would like to remind Emilia Romagna is a region in central Italy, with a population of about 4 400 000 inhabitants and Bologna is its capital.

We didn’t find a lot of data about the employment rate in publishing houses  and so we have decided to make an introduction in the field explaining the functions of the main workers.

Publicists can work in various media fields. In book publishing, a publicist usually works for a publishing house and is tasked with getting press attention for the books and authors that the house publishes.

Publicists usually work directly with authors and agencies while pitching books and building relationships with reviewers, websites, media outlets, and literary scenes. Once in a while publicists may have to demonstrate exceptional skills in crisis management and damage control if an author or publishing house gets themselves in some hot water with the press or the public. 

In the present slide are listed the main publishing houses in Emilia Romagna.

Emilia Romagna has decided to support the local information network as part of the investment plan against the economic crisis linked to the Coronavirus emergency. In particular, the region has decided to set up a fund of 500,000 euros for newsstands and to allocate a special funding of one million euros to local publishing.

The  data we could collect refers to the employment rate in the years between 2008 and 2015. Analysing the employment rate’s high decrease in the field that is about 18.52%, as can be seen from the present slide, it can be considered that more investments in the publishing area is suiggested so has to promote the increase jobs.

In conclusion, taking into account the regional investments in the field one must wait a suitable amount of time  of time to evaluate an eventual change in employment rates  and the possible need for additional funding.

Thank you all for the attention.