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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788249903321

Autore

Schindler Martin

Titolo

The Italian Labor Market : : Recent Trends, Institutions, and Reform Options / / Martin Schindler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-5477-7

1-4527-3494-1

9786612842696

1-4518-7195-3

1-282-84269-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (24 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Labor market - Italy

Labor - Italy

Finance: General

Labor

Institutions and the Macroeconomy

Fiscal Policy

Demand and Supply of Labor: General

Labor Economics Policies

Employment

Unemployment

Wages

Intergenerational Income Distribution

Aggregate Human Capital

Aggregate Labor Productivity

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General

Labour

income economics

Finance

Labor markets

Labor market reforms

Commodity markets

Financial markets

Labor market

Manpower policy

Economic theory



Commodity exchanges

Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Recent Developments; Figures; 1. Recent Labor Market Trends in Italy; 2. Italy's Labor Market Outcomes in Cross-Country Comparison, 2007; III. Regulatory Framework; 3. Earnings, Productivity and Competitiveness; Boxes; 1. Key Reforms of the Italian Labor Market; IV. Directions for Reform; 4. Employment Protection and Product Market Regulation, 2003; 5. Employment versus Key Product and Labor Market Regulations, 2003; 2. Product Market Regulations and the Labor Market; A. Lessons from Case Studies; 3. Experiences of Successful Labor Market Reformers

Sommario/riassunto

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.