Jobs Act Symposium

Jobs Act Symposium

Jobs Act Symposium

Jobs Act Symposium

28 April 2017

Italy’s Jobs Act in comparative perspective

By Georg Picot

The Jobs Act shares less with other European labour market reforms than with Italy’s previous “Fornero reform”—raising the question whether Renzi’s measures were really needed.

21 April 2017

The Jobs Act and youth (un)employment: between political narratives and policy perspectives

By Patrik Vesan

Two years after the introducion of Renzi’s Jobs Act, its achievements in the area of youth employment appear rather limited.

10 April 2017

Italy’s Jobs Act: An ineffective remedy to a wrong diagnosis

By Michele Raitano

The Renzi government’s Jobs Act was based on the assumption of an overly rigid labour market. Empirical evidence tells a different story.

20 March 2017

Italy’s Jobs Act in European perspective: The flawed economics of flexibility

By Martin Myant

The causal connection between labour market flexibility and employment—a key idea behind Italy’s Jobs Act—does not find much support in the empirical evidence.

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