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Worker Turnover Across Italian Regions

In: Geographical Labor Market Imbalances. Recent Explanations and Cures

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  • Chiara Mussida

    (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza)

  • Francesco Pastore

    (Seconda Università di Napoli)

Abstract

This chapter provides prima facie evidence of the geographical distribution of worker turnover within Italian regions as measured based on the longitudinal files of the labour force survey (LFS) for the period 2004–2010. It explains the stylized facts emerging from this enquiry with an interpretation based on the industrial change literature. Industrial turbulence, rather than labour market flexibility, is driving labour turnover within regions, as the correlation with the Lilien (positive) and the Herfindahl (negative) indices, respectively, shows. In other words, industrial change causes greater job destruction and flows into and out of unemployment, while, as also Alfred Marshall noted, the availability of more specialised districts could partly offset the diseconomies of specialisation in terms of greater exposure to external shocks, when the unit of analysis is sufficiently large, as it is in our case (NUTS1 and NUTS2). We also find that, at an individual level, the regional gap in turnover rates is due to regional differences in the gender, age and education attainment of the workforce, as well as the share of temporary work contracts and the size of firms.

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  • Chiara Mussida & Francesco Pastore, 2015. "Worker Turnover Across Italian Regions," AIEL Series in Labour Economics, in: Chiara Mussida & Francesco Pastore (ed.), Geographical Labor Market Imbalances. Recent Explanations and Cures, edition 1, chapter 2, pages 17-35, AIEL - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro.
    • Handle: RePEc:ail:chapts:08-02
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    1. Barbara MARTINI & Marco PLATANIA, 2022. "Are The Regions With More Gender Equality The More Resilient Ones? An Analysis Of The Italian Regions," Regional Science Inquiry, Hellenic Association of Regional Scientists, vol. 0(2), pages 71-94, June.
    2. Iammarino, Simona & Guy, Frederick & Filippetti, Andrea, 2019. "Regional disparities in the effect of training on employment," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 87466, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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    Keywords

    Regional unemployment; Industrial change; Worker turnover; Italian regions;
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    JEL classification:

    • C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
    • P25 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
    • P52 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Comparative Economic Systems - - - Comparative Studies of Particular Economies
    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population

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