Employment and Unemployment in the Italian Provinces

Cristiano Perugini

No 49/2008, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Economia, Finanza e Statistica from Università di Perugia, Dipartimento Economia

Abstract: The aim of the paper is to discuss the characteristics of various labour market performance indicators and to use them to provide some empirical evidence regarding Italian labour market performance at provincial level (NUTS 3). This is done by comparing results obtained by means of various descriptive statistics and sigma and beta convergence analysis for unemployment and employment indicators. The empirical analysis is preceded by a discussion on the theoretical meaning and implications of using unemployment rates vs. employment rates and on the possibility/appropriateness of using convergence tools for labour market analysis. The last section summarises and discusses the main results, and some policy considerations are provided.

Keywords: employment/unemployment indicators; employment/unemployment convergence; provincial labour markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J21 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2008-03-24
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