share of long-term unemployment. The rise in unemployment and its persistently high level have been blamed, both in Italy … Italy. In particular, the existence of high wage floor -- either set through statutory minimum wages or by collective … of unemployment. An additional dimension of "segmentation" also characterises the Italian labour market, notably the 30 …

-matching theory, job creation in a firm should depend on the availability of workers (unemployment) and on the number of job openings … in other firms (congestion). According to efficiency wage and bargaining theory, wages are set above the market clearing … of the search-matching theory. -- Job Creation ; Involuntary Unemployment ; Search-Matching ; Labor Demand …

-matching theory, job creation in a firm should depend on the availability of workers (unemployment) and on the number of job openings … in other firms (congestion). According to efficiency wage and bargaining theory, wages are set above the market clearing … of the search-matching theory. -- job creation ; involuntary unemployment ; search-matching ; labor demand …

-matching theory and a standard labor demand model. Estimation on firm-level data yields support for the labor demand model. Wages and …

share of long-term unemployment. The rise in unemployment and its persistently high level have been blamed, both in Italy … Italy. In particular, the existence of high wage floor - either set through statutory minimum wages or by collective … of unemployment. An additional dimension of "segmentation" also characterizes the Italian labour market, notably the 30 …

public sector can be an important determinant of private employment and unemployment. I look at the case of geographically … homogeneous wages across regions with different private sector productivity, and show that public employment generates a crowding … productivity unbalance across regions, is responsible for up to 40% of the unemployment gap between the North and South. Policy …

This paper examines the determinants of Italian unemployment by estimating and utilizing a structural vector … autoregressive (VAR) model. Both long-run and short-run macroeconomic determinants of unemployment are examined; the latter are … forecasts of unemployment are produced. A number of scenarios are also constructed to highlight the effect of alternative labor …

unemployment duration. This paper studies the effects of employment protection laws on unemployment spells in two countries: Italy …

We provide evidence on the evolution of worker reallocation in Italy and Spain during the pandemic. In both countries … following job separation. In Italy, we find a modest increase in sectoral reallocation in 2020, reaching 4 percentage points at …

, wages and employment. The study shows that Italy, which in the pre-war period had not yet reabsorbed all the consequences of …