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Italian households and labour market: structural characteristics and effects of the crisis

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  • Sauro Mocetti

    (Banca d'Italia)

  • Elisabetta Olivieri

    (Banca d'Italia)

  • Eliana Viviano

    (Banca d'Italia)

Abstract

This analysis aims at studying joblessness and the effect of the economic crisis at the household rather than the individual level. With respect to the main European countries, in Italy the jobless household rate is lower because of the larger household size (the more adults present the lower the risk of joblessness) and the greater propensity to link household formation to employment status. The effects of the economic crisis on the labour market have led to an increase in the jobless household rate. However this increase has been lower than expected, thus suggesting that Italian households have partly absorbed the negative shocks in the labour market. Within households, the job losses mostly related to young people still living with their parents, reflecting an employment protection system that is segmented on a generational basis.

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  • Sauro Mocetti & Elisabetta Olivieri & Eliana Viviano, 2010. "Italian households and labour market: structural characteristics and effects of the crisis," Questioni di Economia e Finanza (Occasional Papers) 75, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.
    • Handle: RePEc:bdi:opques:qef_75_10
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    1. Roberto Felici & Elisabetta Manzoli & Raffaella Pico, 2012. "Crisis and Italian households: a microeconomic analysis of mortgage contracts," Questioni di Economia e Finanza (Occasional Papers) 125, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.
    2. Pierfederico Asdrubali & Simone Tedeschi & Luigi Ventura, 2020. "Household risk‐sharing channels," Quantitative Economics, Econometric Society, vol. 11(3), pages 1109-1142, July.
    3. Francesca Carta, 2020. "Timely Indicators for Inequality and Poverty Using the Italian Labour Force Survey," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 149(1), pages 41-65, May.

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    Keywords

    jobless household; distribution of work;

    JEL classification:

    • D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
    • J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers

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