Wage Premia and Skill Upgrading in Italy: Why didn't the Hound Bark?

Manasse, Paolo ; Stanca, Luca ; Turrini, Alessandro (2001) Wage Premia and Skill Upgrading in Italy: Why didn't the Hound Bark? Bologna: Dipartimento di Scienze economiche DSE, p. 33. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/4875. In: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE (423). ISSN 2282-6483.
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Abstract

This paper presents firm level evidence on the change of non-manual wage premia and employment shares in Italian manufacturing during the nineties. We find that the relative stability of aggregate wage premia and employment shares hides offsetting disaggregate forces. First, while technical progress raises the relative demand for skilled labour witjin firms, demand changes associated with exports reduce the relative demand for skills. Second, within the classof non manual workers, wage premia and employment shares of executives rise substantially, whereas those of clerks fall in a similar proportion. We also find that the export ststus of firms plays a key role in explaining labour market dynamics, as exporters account for most of both demand-related and technology-related shifts. Overall, our results for Italy question the general validity of the conventional view that emphasizes the role of labour market institutions, as opposed to trade and technology, in determining wage and employment dynamics in continental Europe.

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Manasse, Paolo
Stanca, Luca
Turrini, Alessandro
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