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Wage Inequality, Employment Structure and Skill-biased Change in Italy

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  • Paolo Naticchioni
  • Andrea Ricci
  • Emiliano Rustichelli

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This paper investigates empirically the relation between wage inequality, employment structure, and skill-biased change in Italy between 1993 and 2004. Applying quantile decomposition analysis, we point out that changes in wage inequality are mainly driven by a decrease in educational premia over time, whereas changes in employment structure play a negligible role. This evidence suggests that changes in wage inequality in Italy can hardly be interpreted in terms of a skill-biased change, and the evidence is further reinforced by a set of descriptive statistics showing that the increasing educational attainments of the workforce might have been crowded out by a stable trend in the demand for skills. Copyright 2008 The Authors. Journal compilation CEIS, Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2008.

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Volume (Year): 22 (2008)
Issue (Month): s1 (06)
Pages: 27-51

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Handle: RePEc:bla:labour:v:22:y:2008:i:s1:p:27-51

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  1. Davide Antonioli & Paolo Pini & Rocco Manzalini, 2011. "Innovation, Workers Skills and Industrial Relations: Empirical Evidence from Firm-level Italian Data," Working Papers 201106, University of Ferrara, Department of Economics.
  2. Bosio, Giulio, 2009. "Temporary employment and wage gap with permanent jobs: evidence from quantile regression," MPRA Paper 16055, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  3. Ana Karina Alfaro & José Javier Núñez Velázquez, 2010. "The Spanish technnical change: A regional and a dynamic analysis (1994-2007)," Alcamentos 1002, Universidad de Alcalá, Departamento de Estadística, Estructura y O.E.I..

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