The labour market and the distribution of earnings: an empirical analysis for Italy |
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Authors: | Fabio Clementi Michele Giammatteo |
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Institution: | 1. University of Macerata, Department of Political Science, Communication and International Relations, Piazza G. Oberdan 3, 62100 Macerata, Italy;2. Bank of Italy, Via Nazionale 91, 00184 Rome, Italy |
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Abstract: | Using four waves of data from the Participation Labour Unemployment Survey, a database of information on the Italian labour market supply, we address the question of earnings dispersion by applying a ‘nested’ decomposition procedure of the Theil inequality measure, which combines into a unified framework the standard decompositions by population subgroups and income sources. The empirical evidence obtained points to the key role played by the self-employees in shaping labour income inequality, especially at the upper extreme of the earnings distribution, and the emergence of non-standard forms of employment as an important feature of the contemporary workplace. |
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Keywords: | labour income size distribution inequality |
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