Article
Five evidences on labour productivity and inequality association in Italy
Social Work and Social Welfare
(2020)
Abstract
n the past two decades, Italy experienced a deceleration in labour productivity growth accompanied by persistently high income inequality. In this paper, we analyze five main empirical evidences for Italy indicating possible common determinants and linkages between productivity growth and income inequality in the period 1995-2018. To the best of our knowledge, the literature investigating this relationship for Italy is still very scarce. According to our preliminary exploration, the association between Italian productivity growth and income inequality between 1995 and 2018 has been mostly negative. This evidence suggests that the gloomy dynamics of productivity might have been an obstacle to income inequality reduction. There is also the possibility, however, that income inequality itself was among the causes of the gloomy productivity growth
Keywords
- income inequality,
- economic growth,
- Italy
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall October 16, 2020
DOI
10.25082/SWSW.2020.01.003
Citation Information
Roberta De Santis and Valeria Ferroni. "Five evidences on labour productivity and inequality association in Italy" Social Work and Social Welfare Vol. 2 Iss. 1 (2020) p. 63 - 73 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/roberta_de_santis/48/