Vanishing social classes? Facts and figures of the Italian labour market

A. Cetrulo (), A. Sbardella () and Maria Enrica Virgillito
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A. Cetrulo: Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
A. Sbardella: Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2023, vol. 33, issue 1, No 4, 97-148

Abstract: Abstract This paper analyses medium-term labour market trends from 1983 to 2018 in Italy relying on the “Rilevazione dei contratti di lavoro” from INPS archive which provides information on average salaries by professional category, age, gender, and geographical origin. Within an overall pattern of exacerbated wage inequalities, documented by means of different indicators, the empirical analysis highlights how the within-component of the wage variation prevails in the gender, age and geographical dimensions. By contrast, the between-component in terms of professional categories (trainees, blue-collar jobs, white-collar jobs, middle managers, executives) is the only between-variation attribute to prevail, corroborating the role played by a reduced class schema, excluding capitalists and the self-employed, in explaining wage inequality. Regression-based inequality estimations confirm the role played by managerial remuneration, the contradictory located class, in driving divergent patterns. Stratification of wage losses is recorded to be largely concentrated among blue-collar professional categories, women, youth, and in Southern regions.

Keywords: Inequality; Wages; Occupations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J31 J50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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