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Giovanni Sulis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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employment protection and firm provided training quasi experimental evidence from a Labour Market Reform
Social Science Research Network, 2019Co-Authors: Massimiliano Bratti, Maurizio Conti, Giovanni SulisAbstract:In 2012, a Labour Market Reform in Italy known as the Fornero Law substantially reduced firing restrictions for open-ended contracts in the case of firms with more than 15 employees. The results from a difference in regression discontinuities design that compares firms below versus those above the cut-off before and after the Reform demonstrate that after the Fornero Law was introduced, the number of trained workers increased in firms just above the threshold, with an order of magnitude of approximately 1.5 additional workers in our preferred empirical specification. We show that this effect might be partly explained by the reduction in worker turnover and a lower use of temporary contracts at the threshold after the Reform. Our study highlights the potentially adverse effects of employment protection legislation (EPL) on training in dual Labour Markets due to larger firms seeking to avoid the higher costs of EPL via temporary contracts.
Sebastian Weber - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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firm responses to employment subsidies a regression discontinuity approach to the 2012 spanish Labour Market Reform
Social Science Research Network, 2016Co-Authors: Elisa Gamberoni, Katerina Gradeva, Sebastian WeberAbstract:This study focuses on the employment effect of a hiring subsidy available to firms with less than 50 employees, granted in the context of the 2012 Spanish Labour Market Reform. Exploiting the arbitrary firm size threshold using regression discontinuity design, estimates show on average 2 percentage points higher employment growth for firms that became eligible for the scheme. However, tests and complementary regressions suggest that the higher employment growth for smaller firms in 2013 is driven by a 2010 Reform, which imposes more stringent reporting requirements on larger firms. Accounting for this using difference-in-discontinuity regressions, we fail to find any significant effect of the subsidy on increasing employment of eligible firms. While our study suggests several pitfalls arising from size-contingent regulations, more data are needed to test for beneficial long-term effects from the hiring subsidy in addressing duality of the Spanish Labour Market.
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firm responses to employment subsidies a regression discontinuity approach to the 2012 spanish Labour Market Reform
Research Papers in Economics, 2016Co-Authors: Elisa Gamberoni, Katerina Gradeva, Sebastian WeberAbstract:This study focuses on the employment effect of a hiring subsidy available to firms with less than 50 employees, granted in the context of the 2012 Spanish Labour Market Reform. Exploiting the arbitrary firm size threshold using regression discontinuity design, estimates show on average 2 percentage points higher employment growth for firms that became eligible for the scheme. However, tests and complementary regressions suggest that the higher employment growth for smaller firms in 2013 is driven by a 2010 Reform, which imposes more stringent reporting requirements on larger firms. Accounting for this using difference-in-discontinuity regressions, we fail to find any significant effect of the subsidy on increasing employment of eligible firms. While our study suggests several pitfalls arising from size-contingent regulations, more data are needed to test for benecial long-term effects from the hiring subsidy in addressing duality of the Spanish Labour Market. JEL Classification: C21, D22, E24, H25
Elisa Gamberoni - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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firm responses to employment subsidies a regression discontinuity approach to the 2012 spanish Labour Market Reform
Social Science Research Network, 2016Co-Authors: Elisa Gamberoni, Katerina Gradeva, Sebastian WeberAbstract:This study focuses on the employment effect of a hiring subsidy available to firms with less than 50 employees, granted in the context of the 2012 Spanish Labour Market Reform. Exploiting the arbitrary firm size threshold using regression discontinuity design, estimates show on average 2 percentage points higher employment growth for firms that became eligible for the scheme. However, tests and complementary regressions suggest that the higher employment growth for smaller firms in 2013 is driven by a 2010 Reform, which imposes more stringent reporting requirements on larger firms. Accounting for this using difference-in-discontinuity regressions, we fail to find any significant effect of the subsidy on increasing employment of eligible firms. While our study suggests several pitfalls arising from size-contingent regulations, more data are needed to test for beneficial long-term effects from the hiring subsidy in addressing duality of the Spanish Labour Market.
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firm responses to employment subsidies a regression discontinuity approach to the 2012 spanish Labour Market Reform
Research Papers in Economics, 2016Co-Authors: Elisa Gamberoni, Katerina Gradeva, Sebastian WeberAbstract:This study focuses on the employment effect of a hiring subsidy available to firms with less than 50 employees, granted in the context of the 2012 Spanish Labour Market Reform. Exploiting the arbitrary firm size threshold using regression discontinuity design, estimates show on average 2 percentage points higher employment growth for firms that became eligible for the scheme. However, tests and complementary regressions suggest that the higher employment growth for smaller firms in 2013 is driven by a 2010 Reform, which imposes more stringent reporting requirements on larger firms. Accounting for this using difference-in-discontinuity regressions, we fail to find any significant effect of the subsidy on increasing employment of eligible firms. While our study suggests several pitfalls arising from size-contingent regulations, more data are needed to test for benecial long-term effects from the hiring subsidy in addressing duality of the Spanish Labour Market. JEL Classification: C21, D22, E24, H25
Sarbajit Chaudhuri - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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economic liberalization and wage inequality in the presence of Labour Market imperfection
International Review of Economics & Finance, 2007Co-Authors: Sarbajit Chaudhuri, Shigemi YabuuchiAbstract:Abstract This paper is purported to analyze the consequences of liberalized economic policies on the skilled–unskilled wage inequality in the developing countries using a three sector general equilibrium model reasonable for at least a few developing economies. The analysis of the paper has found that the wage inequality rises unambiguously due to a reduction of import tariff from the low-skill manufacturing sector. However, an inflow of foreign capital produces a favourable effect on the wage inequality under a reasonable factor intensity condition. Interestingly, contrary to the common wisdom, a policy of Labour Market Reform may raise the competitive unskilled wage and improve wage inequality under reasonable condition.
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Labour Market Reform welfare and urban unemployment in a small open economy
Keio economic studies, 2006Co-Authors: Sarbajit ChaudhuriAbstract:The paper examines the aptness of Labour Market Reform in a developing country using a three-sector Harris-Todaro model with agricultural dualism and a non-traded final commodity. The paper, contrary to the common belief, finds that liberalization in the Labour Market may be desirable from the view points of both social welfare and unemployment problem. This theoretical framework may be useful in explaining as to why Labour Market Reform should be regarded as an integral component of the package of liberalized economic policies in the countries in transition.
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economic liberalization and wage inequality in the presence of Labour Market imperfection
International Trade, 2005Co-Authors: Sarbajit Chaudhuri, Shigemi YabuuchiAbstract:Removal of tariff restrictions from the relatively low-skill sectors; growth in foreign direct investment; and, decline of trade union strength of the unskilled workers are cited in the empirical literature as the prime factors responsible for the growing incidence of wage inequality in many of the developing countries in the liberalized trade and investment regime. This paper has made an attempt to provide a theoretical foundation of those empirical findings in terms of a three sector general equilibrium model reasonable for at least a few developing economies. The analysis of the paper has found that the wage inequality rises unambiguously due to policies like an increase in the relative price of the high-skill commodity and a reduction of import tariff from the low-skill manufacturing sector. However, an inflow of foreign capital produces a favourable effect on the wage inequality under a reasonable factor intensity condition. Interestingly, contrary to the common wisdom, a policy of Labour Market Reform may raise the competitive unskilled wage and improve wage inequality under reasonable condition.
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Labour Market distortion technology transfer and gainful effects of foreign capital
The Manchester School, 2005Co-Authors: Sarbajit ChaudhuriAbstract:This paper purports to show that even in a 2 × 2 full-employment production structure, an inflow of foreign capital may be welfare improving in the presence of Labour Market distortion. However, the existence of Labour Market distortion is a necessity to obtain this unconventional result. If an inflow of foreign capital is accompanied by Labour Market Reform, the possibility of welfare gain due to foreign capital diminishes. Therefore, there may exist a trade-off between the policies of growth with foreign capital and Labour Market Reform. However, if the inflow of foreign capital is accompanied by a Labour-augmenting type technology transfer, it is found that investment liberalization policy and Labour Market Reform may be undertaken concurrently in a developing economy.
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how and how far to liberalize a developing economy with informal sector and factor Market distortions
Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2003Co-Authors: Sarbajit ChaudhuriAbstract:Whether a liberalizing developing economy should implement the entire WTO-prescribed package, and to what extent this is expedient, are two important questions, especially because the available empirical evidence suggests that developing countries have been facing substantial adjustment costs in their endeavour to implement trade and investment Reform. The present paper makes a humble effort to provide answers to the above questions in terms of a three-sector general equilibrium model with informal sectors. Welfare implications of three liberalization policies: inflow of foreign capital, tariff reduction and Labour Market Reform, have first been analysed in a full-employment framework. Later, the paper has been extended into a Harris - Todaro framework with an urban informal sector and capital Market distortion. We have shown that welfare consequences of a tariff Reform and/or a policy of deregulating the Labour Market crucially depend on the presence and magnitude of foreign capital in the economy. It is argued here that unless a proper choice among different prescribed policies, compatible with the internal institutional, technological and trade-related characteristics, is made, drastic implementation of Reform measures may produce counterproductive results for the welfare of the relevant country.
Antonio Aloisi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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il lavoro a chiamata e le piattaforme online della collaborative economy nozioni e tipi legali in cerca di tutele on demand work and online platforms in the collaborative economy
Social Science Research Network, 2016Co-Authors: Antonio AloisiAbstract:Italian Abstract L’articolo offre un quadro delle piu recenti tendenze del mercato del lavoro legate all’economia digitale. Sono passati in rassegna il crowd-employment e il lavoro a chiamata via piattaforma online, articolazioni flessibili della prestazione presso operatori digitali che facilitano l’incontro di domanda e offerta di lavoro. Al fine di inquadrare i servizi resi dalle piattaforme in una cornice legislativa nazionale e sovranazionale, si descrivono le prime iniziative regolatorie in materia (specificatamente, la Comunicazione sulla Collaborative Economy della Commissione Europea e la proposta di legge italiana sulla Sharing Economy). Si rendera conto della giurisprudenza che si e sviluppata nei confronti del servizio di mobilita condivisa Uber, analizzando in particolare il caso spagnolo, quello italiano e, da ultimo, quello britannico. Ci si rivolgera con occhio critico all’armamentario lavoristico per valutarne l’eventuale obsolescenza ovvero apprezzarne l’attualita. Si descriveranno per sommi capi gli sviluppi dell’antico dibattito sulla necessita di attrezzare nuove categorie (ad esempio, un tertium genus tra lavoro autonomo e lavoro subordinato) per rispondere alle esigenze di un mercato in trasformazione. La pluridecennale esperienza italiana della parasubordinazione, pur nella sua “peculiare anomalia”, rappresentera il metro di paragone: se ne tratteggera l’evoluzione, per concentrare l’attenzione sul portato del comma 1 dell’art. 2 del d.lgs. 81/2015 (i.e. le collaborazioni organizzate dal committente). Infine, si avanzera una proposta di disciplina della cosiddetta “gig-economy”, tentando una riconciliazione tra le formule contrattuali atipiche e l’apparato normativo vigente, con particolare riferimento agli innesti legislativi introdotti dal pacchetto del “Jobs Act”. In particolare, s’individuera una buona soluzione di politica del diritto nel processo di estensione automatica degli effetti dello statuto protettivo tipico della subordinazione ai lavoratori economicamente o organizzativamente dipendenti.English Abstract The paper, after giving an overview of recent Labour trends in the digital economy, describes alternative working arrangements such as “crowdworking” and “work on-demand via platform”. The regulatory framework and the legal consequences of such innovative and non-standard forms of work are analysed in detail with emphasis on the improper classification of workers in the gig-economy. In the second section, the essay focuses on the recent Communication of the European Commission on Collaborative Economy that is aimed at establishing under which conditions an online platform should be considered a provider of the “underlying services”. This focus is followed by an analysis of antitrust as well as Labour law implications of Spanish, Italian and British rulings. The contribution explores the proposals on how to craft an intermediate category between employees and independent contractors. Workers in the on-demand economy have brought lawsuits alleging that the online platforms are misclassifying them as independent contractors, but the question remains still unsolved. Proponents recently advocated that a third category would be a good fit for digital platform work. Conversely, as far as Italy is concerned, the quasi-subordinate category created an opportunity for uncertainty and arbitrage resulting in the erosion of protection. The article describes the notion of the so called “collaborazioni organizzate dal committente” (contractors whose performance is organised by the principal) as a tool to expand crowdworkers’ rights.Finally, the most recent Italian Labour Market Reform could eventually provide a solution for the current disputes on how work in the gig-economy could be regulated. In fact, the “collaborazioni organizzate dal committente” scheme could represent a useful template since it broadens the scope of the protections granted to standard employees.
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Il lavoro “a chiamata” e le piattaforme online della collaborative economy: nozioni e tipi legali in cerca di tutele
University of Bologna, 2016Co-Authors: Antonio AloisiAbstract:The paper, after giving an overview of recent Labour trends in the digital economy, describes alternative working arrangements such as “crowdworking” and “work on-demand via platform”. The regulatory framework and the legal consequences of such innovative and non-standard forms of work are analysed in detail with emphasis on the improper classification of workers in the gig-economy. In the second section, the essay focuses on the recent Communication of the European Commission on Collaborative Economy that is aimed at establishing under which conditions an online platform should be considered a provider of the “underlying services”. This focus is followed by an analysis of antitrust as well as Labour law implications of Spanish, Italian and British rulings.The contribution explores the proposals on how to craft an intermediate category between employees and independent contractors. Workers in the on-demand economy have brought lawsuits alleging that the online platforms are misclassifying them as independent contractors, but the question remains still unsolved. Proponents recently advocated that a third category would be a good fit for digital platform work. Conversely, as far as Italy is concerned, the quasi-subordinate category created an opportunity for uncertainty and arbitrage resulting in the erosion of protection. The article describes the notion of the so called “collaborazioni organizzate dal committente” (contractors whose performance is organised by the principal) as a tool to expand crowdworkers’ rights.Finally, the most recent Italian Labour Market Reform could eventually provide a solution for the current disputes on how work in the gig-economy could be regulated. In fact, the scheme of “collaborazioni organizzate dal committente” could represent a useful template, since it broadens the scope of the protections granted to standard employees
