The Italian process of flexibilization of the labour market has created a dual market populated by protected permanent employees and unprotected temporary workers. The latter comprises not only temporary employment relationships but also autonomous collaborations used by firms as low-cost de...

This paper studies labour market transitions out of temporary jobs in Italy, focussing on the period that immediately follows the last 2003 labour market reform, and immediately preceding the economic downturn of the second half of 2007. The data-set used is the 2004-2007 IT-SILC individual...

[fre] Les salaires sont-ils rigides? Le cas de la France à la fi n des années 1990 . . Les salaires sont rigides s’ils varient «moins qu’ils ne devraient», parce que des mécanismes économiques, des attitudes psychologiques ou des contraintes institutionnelles font obstacle à leur...