The Employment Prospects of Young Graduates in Italy during and after the 2008 Crisis

Raffaella Cascioli

Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, 2021, issue 522-523, 43-59

Abstract: [eng] The school-to-work-transition in Italy suffers a number of critical issues. This paper documents the employment prospects of young Italians graduates during the economic recession (2008 2014) and in the subsequent period of recovery (2015 2017). The analysis, based on data from the European Labour Force Survey, focuses on the employment rate of recent graduates in the 20 34 age group, an indicator adopted by Europe to monitor transitions from school to work. We distinguish temporary employment, and examine in parallel the employment rates of those beyond three years after graduation. Logit model estimations of the probability to be employed, accounting for educational attainment and time spent in the labour market, show that seniority did not provide significant protection during the crisis, and that tertiary graduates were less affected by the crisis than upper secondary graduates, and have benefited more from the recovery. An analysis of pseudo-cohorts’ trajectories suggests no evidence of a scarring effect but, for upper secondary graduates only, the changes in temporary employment rates evoke cohort effects.

JEL-codes: I26 J13 J21 J22 J23 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.24187/ecostat.2021.522d.2038

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