Abstract
In the second half of the 1970s Italy was alone among the major EEC economies in showing a positive rate of growth of employment in industry. In the same period the rate of growth of Italian industrial production was the highest and the rate of growth of output per person employed the lowest. This fact is surprising, especially in view of previous and subsequent records of productivity growth. Before and after the mid-1970s output and employment in Italy followed a pattern of growth which was close to the other large EEC countries.
We wish to thank Giorgio Bodo and Luigi Guiso of the Bank of Italy and Guido Romagnoli and Lorenzo Bordogna for providing us with some of the data used in this paper.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Reference
Banca d’ltalia (1970) (1971) Annual Report.
Barca, F. and Magnani, M. (1988) L’Impresa tra Capitale e Lavoro: Dall’Autunno Caldo al Risanamento (Bologna: Il Mulino).
Bentolila, and Bertola, (1988) ‘Firing Costs and Labor Demand: How Bad is Eurosclerosis?’, mimeo.
Cella, G. P. and Regini, M. (1985) Il Conflitto Industriale in Italia (Bologna: Il Mulino).
Engle, R. F. and Granger, C. W. J. (1987) ‘Co-Integration and Error Correction: Representation, Estimation and Testing’, Econometrica, vol. 55, March, pp. 251–76.
Lange, P. and Regini, M. (eds) (1988) State, Market and Social Regulations: New Perspectives on Italy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Lange, P., Vannicelli, R. and Vannicelli, M. (eds) (1982) Unions, Change and Crisis: French and Italian Union Strategy and the Political Economy 1945–80 (London: Allen & Unwin).
Lindbeck, A. and Snower, D. (1984) ‘Involuntary Unemployment as an Insider-outsider Dilemma’, Stockholm Institute of International Economic Studies, seminar paper no. 282.
Perron, P. (1987) ‘The Great Crash, the Oil Price Shock and the Unit Root Hypothesis’, mimeo, Université de Montreal, October.
Perron, P. (1988) ‘Trends and Random Walks in Macroeconomic Time Series: further evidence from a new approach’, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 12, no. 2/3, June/September.
Phillips, P. C. B. (1987) ‘Time Series Regression with Unit Roots’, Econometrica, vol. 55.
Pizzorno, A. (1978) ‘Political Exchange and Collective Identity in Industrial Conflict’, in Crouch, C. and Pizzorno, A. (eds) The Resurgence of Class Conflict in Western Europe since 1968 (London: Macmillan).
Rappoport, P. and Reichlin, L. (1987) ‘Segmented Trends and Nonstationary Time Series’, European University Institute Working Paper no. 87/319.
Rappoport, P. and Reichlin, L. (1988) ‘Segmented Trends and Nonstationary Time Series’, Economic Journal, Supplement, September.
Reichlin, L. (1988) ‘On Unit Root Econometric and Testing for Structural Change’, mimeo, OFCE Paris, December.
Salvati, M. (1985) ‘Italy’, in Maier, C. and Lindberg, L. (eds) The Politics of Inflation and Economic Stagnation (Washington DC: The Brookings Institution).
Silva, F., Ferri, P. and Enrietti, A. (1984) ‘Employment Impact of Microelectronics “new technologies” on the Italian Automobile Industry’, mimeo (Geneva: International Labour Office) December.
Tabellini, G. (1987) ‘The Politics of Inflation and Economic Stagnation: a review essay’, Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 19, no. 32, May, pp. 457–61.
Editor information
Copyright information
© 1990 International Economic Association
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Reichlin, L., Salvati, M. (1990). Industrial Employment in Italy: The Consequences of Shifts in Union Power in the 1970s and 1980s. In: Brunetta, R., Dell’Aringa, C. (eds) Labour Relations and Economic Performance. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11562-4_9
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11562-4_9
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-11564-8
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-11562-4
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance CollectionEconomics and Finance (R0)