Labour market reforms in Italy: evaluating the effects of the Jobs Act

Cirillo, Valeria; Fana, Marta; Guarascio, Dario

doi:10.1007/s40888-017-0058-2

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“…The only exception is represented by the share of temporary employees which displays a positive and significant (but not strong) association with employment excluding the specifications in which the Digital Use indicator is included. Indeed, this evidence is in line with much of the empirical literature studying the post-2008 evolution of the Italian labor market, reporting a continuous increase in the share of temporary employment (on this point, see Cirillo et al 2017;Cirillo and Ricci, 2019).…”

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Digitalization, routineness and employment: An exploration on Italian task-based data

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This paper explores the relation between the digitalization and of labour processes, the level of routineness of tasks and changes in employment. The levels of digitalization and routineness of occupations in 796 5-digit ISCO professional groups are measured using data from a unique Italian profession-level survey on skill, task and work contents-the INAPP-ISTAT Survey on Italian Occupations (ICP), an O*NET-type dataset. We develop three novel digitalization indices: a digital use index measuring the use of digital devices and technologies in the workplace, a digital skills index assessing the familiarity and skill in using digital technologies, and a digital tasks index capturing the frequency and importance of selected digital tasks. Using the same data-source the Autor and Dorn routine task intensity index is also computed. This allows us to explore, based on robust indicators on routinization and digitalization, the existence and the strength of a "routinized biased technological change" specifically associated to the use of digital technologies. Results show the multifaceted nature of both digitalization and routineness processes, both characterized by strong sectoral specificities and by being strongly associated with the skill content of labour professions. Professions characterized by higher digital skills are those showing the best employment performances (although this holds only in manufacturing sector). Both the descriptive and econometric evidences show a negative employment dynamics among professions combining high level of digitalization and routineness.

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Digitalization, routineness and employment: An exploration on Italian task-based data

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“…These important changes were accompanied by labor market developments and policy reforms relevant to the beginning and the middle stages of working life: namely, increased female labor force participation (Scherer and Reyneri 2008); delayed labor market entry because of more time spent in education (Billari and Rosina 2004;Billari and Tabellini 2010); labor market deregulation (Aricò and Stein 2012;Cirillo et al 2017); and a trend toward discontinuous employment and career trajectories among people of working ages (Barbieri and Scherer 2009). Despite these shifts, by Italian standards the country's labor market conditions before the crisis were generally considered favorable (Aricò and Stein 2012), including for young people entering the labor market (Mussida and Sciulli 2016).…”

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The Legacy of the Great Recession in Italy: A Wider Geographical, Gender, and Generational Gap in Working Life Expectancy

2018

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Under the pressure of population aging the Italian pension system has undergone reforms to increase labor force participation and retirement age, and, thus, the length of working life. However, how the duration of working life has developed in recent years is not well understood. This paper is the first to analyze trends in working life expectancy in Italy. We use data from a nationally representative longitudinal sample of 880,000 individuals from 2003 to 2013 and estimate working life expectancy by gender, occupational category, and region of residence using a Markov chain approach. We document large and increasing heterogeneity in the length of working life. From 2003From -2004From to 2012From -2013, working life expectancy for men declined from 35.2 to 27.2 years and for women from 34.7 to 23.7 years, increasing the gender gap to 3.5 years. Both young and old were hit, as roughly half of the decline was attributable to ages below 40, half above 40. Working life expectancy declined for all occupational groups, but those in manual occupations lost most, 8.5 years (men) and 10.5 years (women). The North-South economic gradient widened such that men living in the North were expected to work 8 years longer than women living in the South. The fraction of working life of total life expectancy at age 15 declined to record lows at 40% for men and 34% for women in 2012-2013. Policies aiming Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https ://doi.org/10.1007/s1120 5-018-1910-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 3at increasing total population working life expectancy need to take into consideration the socio-demographic disparities highlighted by our results.

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“…19 On this subject, there is little Italian young individuals can do for the country remains one of the few that still lacks a proper national representative body for them. 20 As observed by Cirillo et al (2017), the increase in permanent jobs almost exclusively regarded the older cohort of workers. In parallel, the younger job seekers were left, for the most part, with atypical contracts as the result of a going-flexible policy entirely à l'italienne.…”

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“You reap what you sow”: Do active labour market policies always increase job security? Evidence from the Youth Guarantee

Focacci

2020

Eur J Law Econ

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The paper uses non-experimental longitudinal data to study the effects of participation in the Youth Guarantee programme aimed at fighting youth inactivity in the European Union territory. Particularly, this analysis questions the value of active labour market policy as a valid instrument to help individuals otherwise isolated from the labour market and, thus, at risk of deterioration of human capital overcome their condition of occupational inactivity. A difference-indifferences model is exploited in this regard to investigate whether there exists an advantage for participants of the Youth Guarantee in terms of employment and job stability. Results show that participants are 7.4 and 4.4 percentage points more likely to, respectively, become employed and be offered an open-ended contract. An assessment of profiling is also provided.

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Labour market reforms in Italy: evaluating the effects of the Jobs Act

Cited by 57 publications

References 46 publications

Digitalization, routineness and employment: An exploration on Italian task-based data

Digitalization, routineness and employment: An exploration on Italian task-based data

The Legacy of the Great Recession in Italy: A Wider Geographical, Gender, and Generational Gap in Working Life Expectancy

“You reap what you sow”: Do active labour market policies always increase job security? Evidence from the Youth Guarantee

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