Collective bargaining at company level has not been particularly widespread, especially at small firms and in the South. The Bank of Italy’s survey shows that performancerelated wage premia have been paid irregularly and have involved only small amounts. Nevertheless they have fostered a...

Il problema dell'informazione asimmetrica nel mercato del lavoro e' stato affrontato ripercorrendo la letteratura relativa agli sviluppi dei modelli di salari di efficienza, nelle varie categorie di selezione avversa, azzardo morale e segnalazione. Per ognuna di queste categorie sono stati...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro fornisce una rassegna dei principali interventi, definiti dalle parti sociali o di iniziativa governativa, che hanno cercato di favorire il decentramento degli assetti contrattuali negli ultimi anni. Sono state introdotte numerose innovazioni che non hanno tuttavia...

Italian Abstract: Il lavoro fornisce una rassegna degli sviluppi recenti delle relazioni industriali, sia sul piano delle regole, sia sul piano dei risultati della contrattazione. Si assiste a una crescente frammentazione nel panorama della contrattazione nazionale, con la diffusione di accordi...

This paper confronts Greenwald's model of adverse selection in the labour market, with Topel and Ward's model of job shopping. According to Greenwald's contribution, in a sequence of periods, workers' freedom to change jobs is seriously reduced by a process of adverse selection. The labour...

Job (dis)continuity and careers configuration are crucial for understanding new and old inequalities on the labour market. The impact of deregulation and flexibilization processes on careers is still unclear. In order to detect vulnerable profiles of workers, it would be useful to analyse the...

Youth leaving school and searching for a job suffer of work experience gap. This is very similar to the skill mismatch that occurs after a shock of demand or supply of competencies: to adequate the supply of competences to the new needs, it is necessary to modify the education and training...

This paper uses longitudinal data for a sample of Italian firms to study the effects of technological and organisational changes on wage levels and on wage differentials by skills inside the firm. Fixed effect estimates reveal that technological changes are associated with higher absolute and...

When Court enforcement is excessively difficult or costly, agents are often able to create «endogenous enforcement mechanisms», that is, to design agreements so that each party finds it optimal to carry them out (self-enforcing implicit contracts), thanks to the threat of sanctions affecting...