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Labor Market Reform and Rent-sharing: A Quasi-experiment Experience

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  • Ambra Poggi
  • Rosella Nicolini

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We analyze the impact on wages of the adoption of a rent-sharing remuneration scheme aimed at making labor institutions more flexible. We work within a quasi-experimental setting referring to a sample of Italian companies before and after the introduction of the Treu Reform (1997). Our estimations confirm that this reform not only increased insider workers' wages via rent-sharing, but also fueled a σ−convergence process of the rent-sharing elasticity across the sectors at a different rate. Finally, we deliver a reasoned discussion of the consequences of implementing this reform on the Italian job market. This reform produced advances in the quality of job remuneration but it deepened a structural gap in the Italian labor market composition.

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  • Ambra Poggi & Rosella Nicolini, 2016. "Labor Market Reform and Rent-sharing: A Quasi-experiment Experience," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 38(4), pages 618-631.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:apecpp:v:38:y:2016:i:4:p:618-631.
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    Keywords

    Rent-sharing; convergence; IV estimation;
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    JEL classification:

    • C36 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
    • J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
    • J50 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - General

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