Worker Mobility, Displacement, Redeployment and Wage Dynamics in Italy

Bruno Contini () and Claudia Villosio ()

No 2622, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: We investigate various stylized facts on wage growth, labor mobility and firm size, to date unexplored in Italy. Using a wage decomposition that allows to separate "individual premiums" from firm-effects, we ascertain: (1) whether movers are better off than stayers; (2) whether firm size affects the outcome of workers’ mobility across; and (3) the extent to which did job displacement and redeployment inflict wage losses to downsized workers. The sample - a closed panel of full-time male employees, aged 20-50, at work from 1986 to 1991 - is drawn from the employer-employee linked database WHIP (Work Histories Italian Panel).

Keywords: job mobility; wage growth; displaced workers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J62 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007-02
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