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Southern European labour markets
Although quite a lot of research exists on the function of Southern European labour markets, we are still at odds as to whether there is a specific model of the functioning of these markets. Are there common features of these markets, similar problems and common cures In research being conducted by Maia Guell, Marco Manacorda, Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo we aim at addressing some of these issues by using micro data from Italy, Spain and Portugal and comparing the performance of the labour markets in these countries to the one in the UK. Among the questions we ask are:
- What shapes living arrangements in these countries and what is the interaction with the welfare system?
- What role do extended families play What determines schooling choices?
- What explains the fall in fertility rates in these countries?
- How does this correlate with the fall in migration?
- Why is self-employment so widespread?
- And what explains the lower participation rates of women in the labour market?
We aim at addressing these issues by questioning the widespread assumption that the prevailing Anglo-Saxon paradigm of the labour market is able to capture the complexity of the socio-economic variables and its interaction with the institutional background in countries different from the US and UK. We argue that one should borrow from the experience of less developed countries and the related literature.
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