Stabilità e mutamento della scala di stratificazione occupazionale in Italia.

Our study investigates changes occurred in the Italian social stratification in the last twenty years. It is based on stratification studies that consider individual occupations as the main aspect of the immaterial and material resource allocation and, more precisely, the studies that order occupations along a continuum by their social desiderability. At this aim we compare the de Lillo-Schizzerotto Scale (1985) with a new edition of the same scale, realized in 2005 by an inter-university research equipe; doing this, we focused on scores and ranking of the occupational categories in the two scales. Metric and ordinal association measures between the two Scales do not show significant changes in the structure of perceived desiderability of occupations in the Italian labour market. Therefore, in this point of view, twenty years later results confirm the stability of the social inequality system in our country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]