Italy: The Long Times of Consensual Re‐Regulation

Lodovici, Manuela Samek

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“…In this section we describe how some aspects of the Italian labour market for university graduates changed during the period of time we study. As stated earlier, this was a period of profound changes for labour market regulation in Italy (Ballarino, 2005; Samek Lodovici, 2000): two major, and highly controversial, reforms of labour market regulation took place in 1997 and 2003, as well as many smaller interventions at both the legislative and the collective bargaining level 20 . The general aim of the re‐regulation process was to add flexibility to quite a rigid labour market, in order to increase both employment and firms' efficiency.…”

Section: The Evolution Of Graduates' Labour Market Opportunities Dmentioning

confidence: 97%

Field of Study and University Graduates' Early Employment Outcomes in Italy during 1995–2004

Ballarino

Bratti

2009

Labour

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In a period of expanding higher education, the field of study becomes a key determinant of university graduates' labour market success. In this paper, by means of multivariate analyses of the quality of graduates' early employment outcomes, we first describe how the effect of different fields of study on the university-to-work transition changed between 1995 and 2004 in Italy. Second, we put forward some alternative hypotheses to interpret the changes observed over time and assess which ones seem to be more consistent with the data. Copyright 2009 CEIS, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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Section: The Evolution Of Graduates' Labour Market Opportunities Dmentioning

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Field of Study and University Graduates' Early Employment Outcomes in Italy during 1995–2004

Ballarino

Bratti

2009

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“…In 1984 the "causality principle" for fixed-term contracts was abolished in Spain and their maximum duration set at three years. In the same year, the (fixed-term) worktraining contract was introduced in Italy and remained the main form of temporary employment in that country until the mid-1990s (Samek Lodovici, 2000).…”

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Continuity and change in the southern European social model

Karamessini¹

2008

International Labour Review

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Over the past 20 years or so, the southern European model has undergone substantial change in every way. The changes in industrial relations, wage-setting and employment protection legislation have tended to increase wage and labour flexibility and restrict labour market segmentation. Changes within the welfare state have sought to improve labour force skills, fill gaps in social protection, reduce inequalities in social security and contain social expenditure growth. Yet institutional change has not eliminated the main features of this model: pronounced labour market segmentation and familialism; however, extremely low fertility rates are indicative of the limits of familialism in the near future.T he term "social model" is applied to a mode of social reproduction specific to a national, cross-national or regional context over a given period, in this case southern Europe. This article will examine the employment and the welfare regimes of this model. First, how industrial relations and skills development are organized, wages determined and employment regulated and, second, the roles played by the State, the market and the family in the production and distribution of welfare.In this article it is argued that Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain possess the same or similar mode(s) of social reproduction and together represent a south European social model different from that in other European countries. This argument, which was originally developed in the first half of the 1990s within the framework of comparative socio-economic research, holds at a certain level of abstraction yet is not irrefutable given significant differences between the countries in the group. The literature supporting it emphasizes the common characteristics of the welfare state, the family and labour market * Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens. Email: mkarames@panteion. gr. With acknowledgements and thanks to Lydia Fraile, Paola Villa, Maria do Pilar Gonzales, Josep Banyuls, Annamaria Simonazzi and the anonymous reviewers of this article for their comments.Responsibility for opinions expressed in signed articles rests solely with their authors and publication does not constitute an endorsement by the ILO.

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“…Italian legislation in the 1980s remained the most restrictive as regards the use of fixed‐term contracts. From 1984 a reduction in social security contributions and simplifications in hiring procedures were used to encourage one special form, the work–training contracts for young people (Samek Lodovici, 2000), and a 1987 law provided for the extension of fixed‐term contracts through collective agreements, provided target groups and employment shares were specified.…”

Section: Changes In the Se Employment Model In The Last 20 Yearsmentioning

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Still a distinctive southern European employment model?

Karamessini

2008

Industrial Relations Journal

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Current similarities among the four southern European EU Member States-Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain-with respect not only to labour market characteristics but also to the institutional arrangements that influence labour supply, utilisation and demand corroborate the concept of a distinctive southern European employment model. Its origins go back to common features in the pattern of socio-economic development and the political history of these countries. In the past 20 years or so, national differences in the pace and content of institutional change have increased diversity within the model and eroded some of its components. They have not, however, destroyed its unity and distinctiveness.

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Italy: The Long Times of Consensual Re‐Regulation

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Field of Study and University Graduates' Early Employment Outcomes in Italy during 1995–2004

Field of Study and University Graduates' Early Employment Outcomes in Italy during 1995–2004

Continuity and change in the southern European social model

Still a distinctive southern European employment model?

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