Hiring Incentives And/Or Firing Cost Reduction? Evaluating the Impact of the 2015 Policies on the Italian Labour Market

Sestito, Paolo; Viviano, Eliana

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“…The combination of the two measures, have had a positive effect in reducing labour market duality: data released by INPS show that since 2015 open-ended contracts have grown much more than short-term contracts (Figure 30). Sestito and Viviano (2016) show however that the observed shift towards open-ended hires was mostly attributable to the social security contribution exemptions rather than the new rules on individual dismissals. Also, the social security contribution exemption is a 24.…”

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Faces of Joblessness in Italy

Pacifico

Browne

Fernández

et al. 2018

OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers

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confidence: 80%

Faces of Joblessness in Italy

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Browne

Fernández

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OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers

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“…Assessment of the success of the new law is necessarily still preliminary. Using microdata for Veneto, Sestito and Viviano (2016) conclude that the two measures contributed to double the monthly rate of conversion of fixedterm jobs into permanent positions. However, around 40 per cent of the new total gross hires with open-ended contracts occurred because of the incentives, whereas 5 per cent can be attributed to the new firing regulations.…”

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confidence: 94%

Making work more equal

Grimshaw

Fagan²,

Hebson

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This electronic version has been made freely available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) licence, thanks to the support of The University of Manchester, which permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction provided the author(s) and Manchester University Press are fully cited and no modifications or adaptations are made. Details of the licence can be viewed at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ PrefaceThis book is inspired by, and dedicated to, Jill Rubery. Jill is a major figure in international debates on inequalities in work and employment. Her intellectual contributions are renowned for both their critical questioning of mainstream theoretical approaches, whether in economics, management, industrial relations or comparative systems, and their attention to real-world empirical detail. Jill's intellectual roots are with the influential Cambridge economics group researching labour market segmentation in the late 1970s and 1980s during a period when Keynesian economic thought was being eclipsed by neoclassical economics modelling. The research was inter-disciplinary, grounded in data (mostly involving case studies of firms) and driven by an ambitious intellectual agenda that developed theory while also illuminating practical matters of relevance to policy-makers and practitioners. During these Cambridge years, Jill developed a very important network of international friends and colleagues who formed the backbone of the International Working Party on Labour Market Segmentation, which Jill co-founded in 1979, and who provided the impetus for Jill's intellectual interest in comparative employment systems. Collaboration was an important characteristic of Jill's work then and continued following her move to Manchester in 1989 where for nearly three decades many colleagues have benefited enormously from working with her on high-profile research projects, publications and policy advisory work. This book has therefore been a rather strange experience for many of us because we are so used to talking through ideas and our writing with Jill. Her absence, dictated by the tradition of the Festschrift, feels wrong! We would like to say thank you to the 33 friends and colleagues of Jill who have contributed to this volume. We are very conscious that we were unable to invite many others due to MUP page-length restrictions, in particular many younger colleagues and ex-PhD students. We were able to expand the numbers somewhat by suggesting to several colleagues that they co-authored chapters in order to bring a greater number of Jill's friends into the book. These suggestions were generously accepted and we believe they have in fact proven very fruitful, especially in expanding the cross-national comparative scope of chapters. 1A new labour market segmentation approach for analysing inequalities: introduction and overview Damian Grimshaw, Colette Fagan, Gail Hebson and Isabel TavoraThere is a real need for a new multi-dimensional approach to understanding inequalities in work and employment. Face...

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“…6). In Italy, building upon earlier, more partial reforms, the recent 'Jobs Act' stipulated that employers no longer have to reinstate workers dismissed for invalid economic reasons; whereby this reform was combined with strong employer incentives for new hirings on openended contracts, including conversions from temporary to permanent contracts, but falling short of a single type of contract removing the distinction between permanent and temporary types of employment (Picot and Tassinari 2015;Sestito and Viviano 2016). In Spain, dismissals were facilitated by extended and clarifying the reasons for separation as well as limiting severance pay through the 2010 and 2012 reforms, while strengthening the employment protection of temporary workers and encouraging internal flexibility.…”

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“…Using most recent regional data from the Italian region of Veneto to analyse the effect of the Jobs Act, Sestito and Viviano (2016) show that the 2015 reform combining reduced dismissal costs and regulatory uncertainty with relatively generous hiring incentives regarding the employment of permanent workers has changed firm behavior in the expected direction, departing at least to some extent from hiring and firing concentrated among temporary employees (see also Gama et al 2015).…”

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Labor market reforms in Europe: towards more flexicure labor markets?

Eichhörst

Marx

Wehner

2017

J Labour Market Res

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Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro-economic efficiency, workers' well-being and repercussions for social cohesion. EU-28 countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms in the aftermath of the 2008/2009 crisis to tackle a number of issues, including labor market segmentation. This particularly concerns reforms in: (1) employment protection, i.e. dismissal protection and restrictions on fixed-term contracts; (2) unemployment benefit generosity and coverage; and (3) the intensity of active labor market policies. The paper provides an overview of reform patterns and tries to assess whether and to what extent these reforms have led to less dualized, more 'flexicure' labor markets in terms of dismissal protection, the provision of unemployment benefits and access to ALMPs. In particular, we will provide some evidence on potential changes in hirings on temporary contracts.

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Hiring Incentives And/Or Firing Cost Reduction? Evaluating the Impact of the 2015 Policies on the Italian Labour Market

Cited by 22 publications

References 15 publications

Faces of Joblessness in Italy

Faces of Joblessness in Italy

Making work more equal

Labor market reforms in Europe: towards more flexicure labor markets?

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