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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972920803321

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

9786612842696

9781462354771

1462354777

9781452734941

1452734941

9781451871951

1451871953

9781282842694

1282842692

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (24 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Disciplina

331.11423

Soggetti

Labor market - Italy

Labor - Italy

Aggregate Human Capital

Aggregate Labor Productivity

Commodity exchanges

Commodity markets

Demand and Supply of Labor: General

Economic theory

Employment

Finance

Finance: General

Financial markets

Fiscal Policy

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Income economics

Institutions and the Macroeconomy

Intergenerational Income Distribution

Labor Economics Policies

Labor market reforms

Labor market

Labor markets

Labor



Labour

Manpower policy

Unemployment

Wages

Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General

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.