The Effect of Extending the Duration of Eligibility in an Italian Labour Market Programme for Dismissed Workers

Enrico Rettore, Adriano Paggiaro () and Ugo Trivellato ()
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Adriano Paggiaro: University of Padova

No 3633, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Liste di mobilità (LM) is an Italian labour market programme targeted to dismissed workers. It combines a ‘passive’ component granting monetary benefits to employees dismissed by firms larger than 15 employees, and an ‘active’ component providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers from the LM. Eligibility duration varies with the worker’s age at dismissal. Using a new linked administrative panel data set for an Italian region, we exploit the variability of these provisions to evaluate the impact of extending the duration of eligibility on re-employment probabilities and wages over the 36 months subsequent to enrolment in the programme. The average treatment effect is identified via a Regression Discontinuity Design. We validate the design by a set of overidentification tests. For most of the sub-groups we analyse, we find that a longer eligibility period has no impact on re-employment rates. A negative impact emerges for women entitled to monetary benefits at the end of the second year of eligibility, but it disappears one year later. A major negative impact emerges for workers aged 50 or more granted the monetary benefits; it is most likely due to the fact that they can use the LM as a bridge to retirement.

Keywords: regression discontinuity design; active labour market policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 J38 J65 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2008-08
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Published - published as 'The Effect of Longer Eligibility to a Labour Market Programme for Dismissed Workers' in: Labour, 2009, 23 (1), 37 - 66

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