The Effects of Youth Labor Market Reforms: Evidence from Italian Apprenticeships

Andrea Albanese, Lorenzo Cappellari and Marco Leonardi

No 6481, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper estimates the causal effects of the 2003 reform of the Italian apprenticeship contract which aimed at introducing the “dual system” in Italy by allowing on-the-job training. The reform also increased the age eligibility of the apprenticeship contract and introduced a minimum floor to apprentices’ wages. Using administrative data and balancing techniques we find that five years after hiring, the new contract improves the chances of moving to a permanent job in the same firm, yet this happens mostly in large firms. There are also sizeable long-run wage effects of the reform, well beyond the legal duration of apprenticeships, compatible with increased human capital accumulation probably due to the training provisions of the reform.

Keywords: apprenticeship; permanent work; youth employment; covariate balancing propensity score (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 J24 J41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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