It’s wages, it’s hours, it’s the Italian wage curve

Sergio Destefanis and Giovanni Pica

CSEF Working Papers from Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy

Abstract: Using data from the Bank of Italy’s Household Survey we find that a wage curve exists in Italy after the 1992-93 wage reforms for annual and monthly wages but not for hourly wages. Consistently, after the reforms we find a negative elasticity of annual hours and months worked with respect to the unemployment rate.

Keywords: Wage Drift; Panel Data; Unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J30 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-03-08
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Working Paper: The Wage Curve an Italian Perspective (2011)
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