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All of one kind? Labour market reforms under austerity in Italy and Spain
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Picot, Georg and Tassinari, Arianna (2017) All of one kind? Labour market reforms under austerity in Italy and Spain. Socio-Economic Review, 15 (2). pp. 461-482. doi:10.1093/ser/mww042 ISSN 1475-1461.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mww042
Abstract
Most scholars have highlighted the commonalities of labour market reforms under austerity in Europe, mostly in terms of liberalization. We argue that a more differentiated analysis is in order, as empirical developments point to distinct reform trajectories. We analyse in detail the two South-European cases where pressure for austerity was intense but governments maintained a degree of discretion as they were not subjected to direct bailout conditions: Italy and Spain. We examine the period since 2010, which includes a major labour market reform in each of the two states in 2012. Using a theoretical framework that allows distinguishing forms of liberalization, we find that reforms in the two states indeed differed markedly. In Spain flexibilisation and declining coverage of protection prevailed whereas in Italy flexibilisation was combined with improved protection of workers at the margin of the labour market. The differing influence of the centre-left helps to explain this divergence.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Labor market -- Government policy -- Italy, Labor market -- Government policy -- Spain | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Socio-Economic Review | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1475-1461 | ||||||||
Official Date: | April 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 15 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 461-482 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/ser/mww042 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 16 December 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 February 2019 | ||||||||
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