Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33367 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1828
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates regional public-private wage differentials in Italy. Following the recent wave of reforms that significantly changed wage setting and employment relations in both sectors increasing decentralisation in collective bargaining and enforcing a privatisation of public sector employment contracts - we present new estimates of the public-private wage gap by geographical location. We report both 'standardised' public-private wage differentials, as well as estimates obtained using Geographically Weighted Regressions methods. We show that significant differences exist in public-private wage differentials across Italian regions, and that the latter can be partly explained by local labour market conditions affecting the private sector and only marginally the public sector. Differences in public-private wage differentials across regions are expected to determine several imbalances in terms of 'wait' unemployment and recruitment problems in the different areas.
Subjects: 
public-private wage differentials
regional labour market
geographically weighted regressions
JEL: 
J31
J45
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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