Matching Efficiency and Labour Market Reform in Italy. A Macroeconometric Assessment

Sergio Destefanis and Raquel Fonseca ()

CELPE Discussion Papers from CELPE - CEnter for Labor and Political Economics, University of Salerno, Italy

Abstract: A matching theory approach is utilised to assess the impact on the Italian labour market of the 1997 legge Treu, which considerably eased the regulation of temporary work and favoured its growth in Italy. We re-parameterise the matching function as a Beveridge Curve and estimate it as a production frontier. We find huge differences in matching efficiency between the South and the rest of the country. The legge Treu appears to have reduced unemployment in the more developed regions of the country but did not greatly affect the matching efficiency of the regional labour markets.

Keywords: temporary contracts; matching efficiency; regional disparities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C24 J64 J69 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-05
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