Employment Growth in Italy in the 1990s: Institutional Arrangements and Market Forces

Brandolini, Andrea; Casadio, Piero; Cipollone, Piero; Magnani, Marco; Rosolia, Alfonso; Torrini, Roberto

doi:10.1007/978-3-7908-1923-6_4

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“…Italy is today a country in which a large number of atypical contractual arrangements (including apprenticeships, fixed-term contracts, collaborators, agency work, and project work) coexist with standard employment contracts characterized by high social security protection. Young people are over-represented among atypical workers (Villa, 2011), and an increasing proportion of them face discontinuous careers, low income levels, inadequate social protection, and low future pension benefits (Brandolini et at., 2007;Rosolia and Torrini, 2007;Berloffa and Villa, 2010).…”

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Changing Labour Market Opportunities for Young People in Italy and the Role of the Family of Origin

2015

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This paper considers the increased incidence of insecure job conditions for young individuals entering the Italian labour market and their chances of moving to a more secure job after a reasonable period of time. In particular, we investigate empirically whether and how long-term changes in labour market institutions and conditions have altered the role of the family of origin in both labour market entry and subsequent transitions. We use the Italian Households Longitudinal Study (Ilfi) and show that employment opportunities have changed significantly in Italy over the past three decades (from the late 1970s to the early 2000s). For an increasing share of young adults precariousness extends over a fairly long period of their working life. The family of origin reduced the probability of insecurity both in the early 1980s and during the 1990s, but in a different way: in the early 1980s, it had an effect in the entry year, but not subsequently; after the implementation of the Treu reform, its effect appeared only in the years following that of entry. Our overall results suggest that the rapid expansion of insecure contractual arrangements in the 1990s-early 2000s has increased the difficulty of transitioning to a "better" job condition (i.e. secure employment). This has enhanced the role of the family of origin in overcoming the difficulty and generated new inequalities among young Italians.JEL Classification: D6, J2.

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Changing Labour Market Opportunities for Young People in Italy and the Role of the Family of Origin

2015

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“…1) The deprivation of a quality job, as indicated by the fact of being precariously employed. According to the labour economics and sociology literature (see for example Guadalupe 2003;Menendez et al 2006;Brandolini et al 2007;Barbieri2009;Scherer 2009;Amudeo-Dorantes et al 2010) This study contributes to the literature in two substantive ways. To our knowledge, this is the first empirical assessment of the role that different aspects of economic disadvantage in a householdwith regard to the lack of a quality job and of acceptable levels of household income and wealthmay play on couples' fertility intentions in Europe 5 .…”

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“…While the insiders are largely unaffected by labour market adjustments, young people are more likely to be employed with new flexible contracts (those used for the so-called parasubordinati and interinali 10 ), characterized by low income levels, low social protection and discontinuous careers (Cipollone 2001). Precarious workers are not supported by the social protection system, because of the lack of wage subsidies for the low-paid and low unemployment benefits (Brandolini et al 2007). This situation increases the probability of being poor for households with non-standard workers: the Bank of Italy (2009) shows that in 2006 the incidence of poverty for households with only atypical workers was about 47% 11 .…”

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“…Young people and women are more exposed to this risk (Brandolini et al 2007;Barbieri and Scherer 2005). Barbieri (2009) underlines the fact that better educated workers and 10 Most parasubordinati workers are similar to fixed-term employees except that they are paid less and receive lower social security contributions, and do not benefit from employment protection legislation (Brandolini et al 2007).…”

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Economic Insecurity and Fertility Intentions: The Case of Italy

2013

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractWe aim to provide an explanation for the combination of the relatively low female participation rates and lowest-low fertility levels in Italy. Starting from the assumption that childbearing decisions also depend on uncertainty about future employment, income, and wealth, we empirically assess how fertility intentions are affected by: 1) the deprivation of a quality job, which may severely compromise the employability of workers and is likely to provoke feelings of insecurity about future employment; 2) conditions of economic disadvantage in terms of household income and wealth, which may imply insufficient means to deal with potential adverse future events, thereby generating in the household feelings of anxiety and economic insecurity. We show that the instability of women's work status (i.e. the holding of occasional and precarious employment positions) significantly discourages the decision to have a first child. Low levels of household wealth significantly and positively influence the decision to postpone, or even decide against, having a first child. The chances of further childbirth are significantly and negatively influenced by household income insecurity.JEL Codes: C25, J13.

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“…Lower social security contributions for some categories of atypical ----- 13 The reform of the collective bargaining system that took place in 1992-1993 had abolished the wage indexation mechanism, by which a substantial fraction of past inflation was transferred to wages, and introduced a forward-looking mechanism in which pay rises were set according to the government's expected inflation rate, thus preventing wage-price spirals (see Brandolini et al, 2007).…”

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The Policy Response to Macroeconomic and Fiscal Imbalances in Italy in the Last Fifteen Years

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Employment Growth in Italy in the 1990s: Institutional Arrangements and Market Forces

Cited by 51 publications

References 22 publications

Changing Labour Market Opportunities for Young People in Italy and the Role of the Family of Origin

Changing Labour Market Opportunities for Young People in Italy and the Role of the Family of Origin

Economic Insecurity and Fertility Intentions: The Case of Italy

The Policy Response to Macroeconomic and Fiscal Imbalances in Italy in the Last Fifteen Years

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