Beyond dualism

The 'dualisation' debate has given new emphasis to studies investigating labour market segmentation. However, we argue that the traditional dual divide between insider/outsider workers becomes inadequate when analysing the Italian labour market - which features a long series of reforms tha...

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Autores: Maestripieri, Lara|||0000-0003-4710-1653, Firinu, Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:273513
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/273513
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Dualisation
Labour market segmentation
Marginal work
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Sumario:The 'dualisation' debate has given new emphasis to studies investigating labour market segmentation. However, we argue that the traditional dual divide between insider/outsider workers becomes inadequate when analysing the Italian labour market - which features a long series of reforms that segmented the labour market into several categories of workers. This paper aims to investigate the interrelation between the institutional dimensions of labour markets and their consequences on workers' inclusion in social protection schemes, adopting an analytical framework to introduce an additional category of workers, i.e. marginal workers. Marginal workers are non-standard workers whose involuntary, intermittent and ambiguous character in the labour market prevents them from accessing social protection. Focusing on Italy, we provide empirical evidence, we put forward the following arguments a) marginal work is the result of a disjunction between social protection and non-standard work b) marginal work mainly concerns younger generations. One reason for this might be the systematic application of new dismissal rules to new entrants.