Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295800 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16777
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper, we evaluate the impact of a reform introduced in Italy in 2018 (Decreto Dignità), which increased the rigidity of employment protection legislation (EPL) of temporary contracts, rolling back previous policies, to reduce job instability. We use longitudinal labour force data from 2016 to 2019 and adopt a time-series technique within a Rubin Casual Model (RCM) framework to estimate the causal effect of the reform. We find that the reform was successful in reducing persistence into temporary employment and increasing the flow from temporary to permanent employment, in particular among women and young workers in the North of Italy, with significant effects on the stocks of permanent employment (+), temporary employment (-) and unemployment (-). However, this positive outcome came at the cost of higher persistence into inactivity, lower outflows from unemployment to temporary employment and higher outflows from unemployment to inactivity among males and low-educated workers.
Subjects: 
labour market flows
transition probabilities
causal ARIMA methodology
policy evaluation
JEL: 
C18
C53
E32
E24
J6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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