TY - BOOK ID - 84544352 TI - Italy : Selected Issues. AU - International Monetary Fund. AU - International Monetary Fund PY - 1998 SN - 1455282359 1452719365 128098211X 1463939523 9786613753724 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Exports and Imports KW - Labor KW - Macroeconomics KW - Public Finance KW - Demography KW - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General KW - Demand and Supply of Labor: General KW - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution KW - Employment KW - Unemployment KW - Wages KW - Intergenerational Income Distribution KW - Aggregate Human Capital KW - Aggregate Labor Productivity KW - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits KW - Private Pensions KW - Labour KW - income economics KW - Pensions KW - International economics KW - Population & demography KW - Labor markets KW - Income KW - National accounts KW - Labor market KW - Economic theory KW - Italy KW - Income economics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84544352 AB - This Selected Issues paper describes stylized facts, institutions, and directions for reform in the Italian labor market. The paper examines developments in aggregate features of the labor market. It highlights that during the latest cyclical recovery, total employment has remained stagnant and the unemployment rate has not declined despite modest output growth. The paper examines different features of labor market developments from a longer-term perspective, reviewing developments in regional labor markets as well as the evolutions of employment shares and relative wages across sectors. The paper also describes the Italian social protection system. ER -