Labour-Market Reforms and the Beveridge Curve
Some Macro Evidence for Italy
Published Jan 11, 2007
A matching theory approach is utilised to assess the impact on the Italian labour market of the 1997 legge Treu, which considerably eased the regulation of temporary work and favoured its growth in Italy. The authors re-parameterise the matching function as a Beveridge Curve and estimate it as a production frontier, finding huge differences in matching efficiency between the South and the rest of the country. The legge Treu appears to have improved matching efficiency in the North of the country, particularly for skilled workers, but also to have strengthened competition among skilled and unskilled workers, especially in the South.
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- Year: 2007
- Pages: 33
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/WR436
- Document Number: WR-436
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Destafanis, Sergio and Raquel Fonseca Benito, Labour-Market Reforms and the Beveridge Curve: Some Macro Evidence for Italy, RAND Corporation, WR-436, 2007. As of September 20, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR436.html
Destafanis, Sergio and Raquel Fonseca Benito, Labour-Market Reforms and the Beveridge Curve: Some Macro Evidence for Italy. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2007. https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR436.html.
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