This work analyzes the evolution of the labour force participation rate in Italy, as compared with the other main euro … probability of participating. The results show that the main drivers of the increase in Italy's participation rate are structural …

Women's labor force participation is lowest in Italy among the OECD countries. Moreover, the participation rate of …

Aggregate wages display little cyclicality compared with what a standard model would predict. Wage rigidities are an … allocative efficiency on wages paid across firms. We show that this measure has improved progressively since before the recent … focus on the recent downturn and find that large firms were able to adjust wages more than small firms and that small firms …

into or out of employment. In this paper, we evaluate whether this result holds also for France and Italy, characterized by … and Italy realized job-to-job transitions contribute positively to wage growth. However, since these flows are smaller and …

carried out in Italy. The sovereign debt crisis severely hit the Italian economy, causing a collapse in demand, increased … intensive and the extensive margins) more often than wages. However, wage-setting practices were also affected by the new …

wage measure considered has important consequences for the results. The cyclical response of wages measured by National …