We analyse the role that the liberalization of temporary contracts plays in labour share in some EU countries. The empirical analysis mainly relies on the EUKLEMS database and applies a difference-indifference approach. Our results, focused on periods of different length (1996-2007 and 1996-2013), show that legislative innovations that favour the extensive use of temporary contracts negatively affect the labour share, likely because they lower employees' average compensations. We hypothesize that these labour reforms, which lead to enduring skill deficits, thus failing to halt the erosion of the labour share of previous decades.
Labour shares, employment protection and unions in European economies
Mirella Damiani;Fabrizio Pompei
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2020
Abstract
We analyse the role that the liberalization of temporary contracts plays in labour share in some EU countries. The empirical analysis mainly relies on the EUKLEMS database and applies a difference-indifference approach. Our results, focused on periods of different length (1996-2007 and 1996-2013), show that legislative innovations that favour the extensive use of temporary contracts negatively affect the labour share, likely because they lower employees' average compensations. We hypothesize that these labour reforms, which lead to enduring skill deficits, thus failing to halt the erosion of the labour share of previous decades.File in questo prodotto:
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