This paper looks at welfare reforms in Italy and their effects on labour supply. I focus on social security reforms, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early...

This paper analyzes the incentives provided by the Italian Social Security System (SS) to supply labor. Italy is an interesting example in this context as: (1) fertility rates are very low while life expectancy has improved dramatically over the past decades; (2) the SS Program is extremely...

We study the labor market histories of overlapping generations of young Italian workers during the years 1974-1994. We find evidence that worker mobility is higher among younger cohorts, which suggests that the Italian labor market is becoming more “flexible”. We also find that workers in...