Productivity and employment dynamics: new evidence from Italian regions

Bianca Biagi (bbiagi@uniss.it) and Mg. Ladu (mgladu@uniss.it)

Working Paper CRENoS from Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia

Abstract: When productivity growth accelerates job destruction and job creation occurs simultaneously. However the results for the whole economy depend on which effect eventually dominates. We investigate what occurs in Italy during the time span 1977-2003, when some waves of labor market reforms have been introduced towards more flexibility. We also investigate if there are any systematic regional differences in the employment/productivity dynamics and whether these dynamics experience any sort of spatial externalities. Findings suggest that overall in Italy job destruction effect prevails and that the labor market reforms have a negative impact on employment.

JEL-codes: J01 J20 O30 R11 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-geo, nep-lab and nep-ure
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