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- Title
Wage Inequality, Employment Structure and Skill-biased Change in Italy.
- Authors
Naticchioni, Paolo; Ricci, Andrea; Rustichelli, Emiliano
- Abstract
This paper investigates empirically the relation between wage inequality, employment structure, and skill-biased change in Italy between 1993 and 2004. Applying quantile decomposition analysis, we point out that changes in wage inequality are mainly driven by a decrease in educational premia over time, whereas changes in employment structure play a negligible role. This evidence suggests that changes in wage inequality in Italy can hardly be interpreted in terms of a skill-biased change, and the evidence is further reinforced by a set of descriptive statistics showing that the increasing educational attainments of the workforce might have been crowded out by a stable trend in the demand for skills.
- Subjects
ITALY; WAGE differentials; EMPLOYMENT; LABOR economics; ECONOMIC structure; SKILLED labor
- Publication
LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics & Industrial Relations, 2008, Vol 22, p27
- ISSN
1121-7081
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9914.2008.00416.x