Download or read book Labor Market Institutions and Flexibility in Italy written by Dimitri G. Demekas and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1994-03 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper surveys three broad categories of labor market institutions in Italy: employment protection legislation, unemployment benefit systems, and wage bargaining arrangements. In each case, the recent evolution and current state of Italian institutions are evaluated and compared with those in other major European countries.
Download or read book Labor Market Institutions and Flexibility in Italy written by Dimitri Demekas and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Italian Labor Market written by Mr.Martin Schindler and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite improvements in labor market performance over the past decade, owing in part to past reforms, Italy's employment and productivity outcomes continue to lag behind those of its European peers. This paper reviews Italy's institutional landscape and labor market trends from a cross-country perspective, and discusses possible avenues for further reform. The policy discussion draws on international reform experience and on simulations based on a calibrated labor market matching model. A key lesson is that the details of reform design, and the sequencing of reforms, matter greatly for labor market outcomes and for the fiscal costs associated with these reforms.
Download or read book The Political Economy of Work Security and Flexibility written by Berton, Fabio and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic crisis has revealed the dark side of deregulation in the labour market: rising unemployment, limited access to social security and, due to low wages, no savings to count upon in bad times. This book casts light on the empirical relationship between labour market deregulation through non-standard contracts and the three main dimensions of worker security: employment, income and social security. Focusing on individual work histories, it looks at how labour market dynamics interact with the social protection system in bringing about inequality and insecurity. In this context Italy is put forward as the epitome of flexibility through non-standard work and compared with three similar countries: Germany, Spain and Japan. Results show that when flexibility is carried out as a mere cost-reduction device and social security only relies on insurance principles, deregulation leads to insecurity. 'The political economy of work security and flexibility' is essential reading for academics, students, practitioners and policy makers interested in the outcomes of labour market developments in advanced economies over the past twenty years.
Download or read book Unemployment and Labour Market Flexibility written by Loretta De Luca and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1993 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy's traditionally high unemployment has often been linked to the supposed rigidity of the labour market. In fact, the situation resembles a leopard skin, where competitive, dynamic activities coexist with protected, inefficient sectors.
Download or read book The Italian Labor Market written by Mr.Eswar Prasad and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides a synthesis of existing and new empirical perspectives on the structure of the Italian labor market, using data at different levels of disaggregation. The analysis indicates that aggregate data mask considerable disparities in labor market outcomes across regions and demographic groups. The evolutions of sectoral wage and employment structures also point to some dimensions of labor market rigidities. A micro data set with individual data is then used to highlight key structural problems that affect labor supply and demand. The implications of these different strands of empirical analysis for the formulation and effective implementation of labor market policy are then discussed.
Download or read book Labor Market Institutions in Europe A Socioeconomic Evaluation of Performance written by Gunther Schmid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The outcome of three years of research on the role of institutions in labor markets at the research unit Labor Market Policy and Employment of the Social Science Research Center Berlin, these seven contributions were originally presented at a conference in December 1992 before a group of experts i
Download or read book Inside the Black Box written by Carlo Dell'Aringa and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides an assessment of the features that, operating "inside the black box", shapes the evolution of the Italian economy. In the first section the focus is placed on the functioning of the labour market at the aggregate level. The picture described suggests that the Italian labour market is characterized by high employment rates for adult males and both low participation and low employment rates for other groups of individuals (such as young, old and females) and by a large share of long-term unemployment. The rise in unemployment and its persistently high level have been blamed, both in Italy and in other European countries, on imperfections and rigidities originating mainly in the labour market. In this case, both strong employment protection regulation and rigid system of wage determination appear to have played a major role in Italy. In particular, the existence of high wage floor - either set through statutory minimum wages or by collective bargaining - has the effect of segmenting the labour force, increasing job instability and paradoxically increasing the duration of unemployment. An additional dimension of "segmentation" also characterizes the Italian labour market, notably the 30 percent's unemployment rate in the South (6 percent in the North) and the presence of a large share of the labour force employed in the underground economy. In the last section, we discuss how the decentralisation of bargaining, the introduction of higher labour market flexibility as well as the reform of social security, could reduce "insider" power in the labour market and eliminate the vicious cycle that tends to displace workers out of the "primary" sector, thus fueling the irregular economy.
Download or read book The Quality of White Paper on the Labor Market in Italy written by Roger Blanpain and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-08-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In memoriam Professor Marco Biagi / R. Blanpain -- White paper on the labor market in Italy / M. Biagi ... [et al.] -- The "Europeanization" of industrial relations : industrial relations in a global context / M. Biagi, M. Tiraboschi, O. Rymkevitch -- Changing industrial relations / M. Biagi.
Download or read book Labor Market Institutions in Europe written by Günther Schmid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 Self-Employment Schemes for the Unemployed in the European Community: The Emergence of a New Institution, and Its Evaluation -- 7 Equality and Efficiency in the Labor Market: Toward a Socioeconomic Theory of Cooperation -- Index -- Contributors
Download or read book Temporary Work Agencies in Italy written by Stefano Consiglio and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyzes the rise and evolution of the Temporary Work Agencies' (TWAs) field in Italy. Using an in-depth longitudinal analysis from 1986 to 2015, the authors study the evolution of the Italian labor market, analyzing the interaction between players in the TWA sector and the influence of the regulatory framework on the actors' behavior. In addition the work delivers a precise description of the strategies and structures in Italian TWAs and contributes to increasing the understanding of the use of contingent work in this sector. The book provides a unique description of the Italian TWA sector giving not only the complete history from the early beginning to nowadays, but also key performance and structural data.
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Flexible Policy for More and Better Jobs written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new indicator for benchmarking labour-market policy, reviewing the flexibility available in its management throughout OECD countries.
Download or read book Labour Market Studies written by Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews mainly trends of the 1990s.
Download or read book Competitiveness and Wage Bargaining Reform in Italy written by Mr.Alvar Kangur and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of Italian exports has lagged that of euro area peers. Against the backdrop of unit labor costs that have risen faster than those in euro area peers, this paper examines whether there is a competitiveness challenge in Italy and evaluates the framework of wage bargaining. Wages are set at the sectoral level and extended nationally. However, they do not respond well to firm-specific productivity, regional disparities, or skill mismatches. Nominally rigid wages have also implied adjustment through lower profits and employment. Wage developments explain about 45 percent of the manufacturing unit labor cost gap with Germany. In a search-and-match DSGE model of the Italian labor market, this paper finds substantial gains from moving from sectoral- to firm-level wage setting of at least 3.5 percentage points lower unemployment (or higher employment) rate and a notable improvement in Italy’s competitiveness over the medium term.
Download or read book The Political Economy of Work Security and Flexibility written by Fabio Berton and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book casts light on the empirical relationship between labor market deregulation through non-standard contracts and the three main dimensions of worker security: employment, income and social security.
Download or read book Flexibility and employment security in Europe written by R. J. A. Muffels and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title presents carefully selected articles that are at the ultimate forefront of professional studies on 'transitional labour markets' and 'flexicurity'.
Download or read book Labour market contracts and institutions written by Tiziano Treu and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
