Abstract
© 2015. Oxford University Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. All rights reserved. We analyze the impact on wages of the adoption of a rent-sharing remuneration scheme aimed at making labor institutions more flexible. We work within a quasi-experimental setting referring to a sample of Italian companies before and after the introduction of the Treu Reform (1997). Our estimations confirm that this reform not only increased insider workers' wages via rent-sharing, but also fueled a a-convergence process of the rent-sharing elasticity across the sectors at a different rate. Finally, we deliver a reasoned discussion of the consequences of implementing this reform on the Italian job market. This reform produced advances in the quality of job remuneration but it deepened a structural gap in the Italian labor market composition.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 618-631 |
Journal | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy |
Volume | 38 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2016 |
Keywords
- Convergence
- IV estimation
- Rent-sharing