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The Resurrection of the Italian Wage Curve

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Francesco Devicienti
Agata Maida
Lia Pacelli

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We show that the Italian wage curve, inexistent in the eighties and early nineties, has re-emerged after the 1993 Income Policy Agreements, owing to the greater role granted to flexible and locally bargained top-up wage components.

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Paper provided by LABORatorio R. Revelli, Centre for Employment Studies in its series LABORatorio R. Revelli Working Papers Series with number 52.

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Date of creation: 2006
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Keywords: wage curve; top-up components; panel data; institutional reforms; Italy.;

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J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - General

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