The Higher Educated, the Lower Paid: The Fixed-Term Wage Penalty within Highly Educated Workers in Italy

Autor/inn/en	Brunetti, Irene; Cirillo, Valeria; Ferri, Valentina
Titel	The Higher Educated, the Lower Paid: The Fixed-Term Wage Penalty within Highly Educated Workers in Italy
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 47 (2022) 11, S.2253-2272 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Brunetti, Irene)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2022.2043841
Schlagwörter	College Graduates; Foreign Countries; Wages; Salary Wage Differentials; Temporary Employment; Contracts; Education Majors; Geographic Location; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Ausland; Wage; Löhne; Zeitarbeit; Vertrag; Italien
Abstract	This paper explores the temporary-permanent wage gap experienced by Italian graduate workers. To evaluate the wage gap along the entire wage distribution and account for heterogeneous effects of temporary employment, we apply the Recentered Influence Function (RIF) regression approach. The results suggest that the monthly net wage earned by Italian highly educated workers having a temporary contract is lower than that of their 'permanent' counterparts even after controlling for a plethora of individual and job characteristics. More than 50% of the wage gap is due to unobserved characteristics. The field of study, more than the location of the University, explains this discrimination effect due to contractual arrangement. Although the latter is verified along the entire distribution, major effects arise among high-paid and low-paid jobs depicting a U-shape pattern. Results are robust to self-selection, endogeneity, and gender controls. (As Provided).
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