In this paper we show that wage inequality decreased in the Italian private sector, both in the upper and in the lower tail of the distribution, in the period 1993-2006. By applying a quantile decomposition procedure we find that the decrease of the 90/50 ratio is almost totally related to a...

This paper analyses a dimension of the gender pay gap that has received so far a limited attention and that concerns not the level but the form of pay. The econometric analysis we performed has considered a fairly homogenous type of occupation represented by family management and with a great...

This paper investigates the relationship between the spatial distribution of occupations with a high content of peer interactions and wages among Italian provinces. At this aim, we use a unique employer-employee dataset obtained by merging administrative data on wages and labor market histories...