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- Title
Temporary/Permanent Workers' Wage Gap: A Brand-new Form of Wage Inequality?
- Authors
Elia, Leandro
- Abstract
By easing restrictions on the use of short-term contracts, the 30/2003 act represents contemporaneously the more extensive and the more radical policy aimed at introducing flexibility in the Italian labour market. By virtue of a difference-in-differences estimator, the paper provides an estimate of the impact of the 30/2003 reform on the wage gap across fixed-term and long-term employees. It will be given evidence that the policy has widened the wage differentials and the effect is particularly stronger to skilled workers compared with unskilled workers. These findings would suggest the existence of a possible brand-new form of wage inequality.
- Subjects
ITALY; INCOME inequality; LABOR market; LABOR supply; EMPLOYMENT statistics; MINIMUM wage; WAGE differentials; PAY equity; LONG-term employees
- Publication
LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics & Industrial Relations, 2010, Vol 24, Issue 2, p178
- ISSN
1121-7081
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9914.2010.00478.x