Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods: The Case of the Italian Social Service Sector

Michele Mosca and Francesco Pastore
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Michele Mosca: Università di Napoli Federico II

Chapter 8 in Paid and Unpaid Labour in the Social Economy. An International Perspective, 2009, pp 115-141 from AIEL - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro

Abstract: This essay analyses the role of different recruitment channels, and of informal networks in particular, on wage structures across various organization types in the Italian social service sector. While the impact of recruitment methods on wages has been addressed in several previous contributions, none of them focuses on social services. Comparison of outcomes across organization types within the same sector is in itself another novelty, as compared to previous studies that generally focus on differences across sectors or, more recently, across countries. The main findings are that nonprofit organizations prefer informal recruitment methods to better select the most motivated workers, namely those workers who share the nonprofit mission. Furthermore the impact of informal contacts on the wage structure explains much of the unobserved wage differentials across organization type.

Keywords: recruitment channels; informal networks; wage structure; Italian third sector. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 J32 L33 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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