Leonardi, Marco; Pallini, Massimo - In: Rivista di Politica Economica (2013) 1, pp. 199-225
This paper gives an overview of the recent labor market reform in Italy. We focus on the trade-off underlying the spirit of the reform: to increase the use of open-ended contracts the reform reduced the opportunity of (mis)using of temporary contracts and concurrently reduced the costs of...