Assessing labour market policy change

Emanuele Ferragina, Federico Danilo Filetti and Alessandro Arrigoni

Chapter 6 in Handbook of Labour Market Policy in Advanced Democracies, 2023, pp 68-86 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter constructs a multidimensional indicator of labour market protection to systematically disentangle the trajectories of labour market policy change across 15 Coordinated Market Economies (CMEs) since the 1990s. It measures labour market protection holistically across four institutional domains (employment protection, unemployment protection, income maintenance and activation) while also considering changes in workforce composition. This analysis is complemented qualitatively by tracing employment protection reforms implemented in Italy over the same period of time. We find that CMEs labour market trajectories of change do not necessarily conform to classic regime varieties. We propose a fivefold taxonomy of countries’ trajectories, i.e. liberalization, dualization, flexicurity, de-dualization and higher protection. In addition, we illustrate through our qualitative case study how some trajectories can evolve over time. We suggest that in the Italian case, dualization constituted a transitional phase towards a more general process of liberalization.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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