Labour-Market Reforms and the Beveridge Curve. Some Macro Evidence for Italy

Sergio Destefanis and Raquel Fonseca ()

CSEF Working Papers from Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy

Abstract: A matching theory approach is utilised to assess the impact on the Italian labour market of the 1997 legge Treu, which considerably eased the regulation of temporary work and favoured its growth in Italy. We re-parameterise the matching function as a Beveridge Curve and estimate it as a production frontier, finding huge differences in matching efficiency between the South and the rest of the country. The legge Treu appears to have improved matching efficiency in the North of the country, particularly for skilled workers, but also to have strengthened competition among skilled and unskilled workers, especially in the South.

Keywords: temporary contracts; matching efficiency; regional disparities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C24 J64 J69 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-10-01
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Published in LABOUR, 2007, 21, (1), 57-84

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