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| Titre : | Kind of Black: The Musicians' Labour Market in Italy (2012) |
| Auteurs : | Alessandro Balestrino |
| Type de document : | Article : document électronique |
| Dans : | Labour (vol. 26, n° 4, December 2012) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 472–491 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ MUSICIEN ; TRAVAIL AU NOIR ; TRAVAIL A TEMPS PARTIEL ; INDEMNISATION DU CHOMAGE ; PROTECTION SOCIALE ; POLITIQUE SOCIALE ; SALAIRE ; MODELISATION ; ITALIE |
| Résumé : | It is estimated that only 5 per cent of musicians in Italy are regularly employed. In an attempt at understanding such a peculiar situation, we build a theoretical model of the musicians' labour market in which we embed the main institutional features of the Italian system. The presence of taxation encourages the formation of a black labour market for musicians and discourages talented agents from becoming full-time musicians in all second-best economies. In Italy both tendencies are particularly strong, and exacerbated by the peculiarities of the pension system for musicians. These inefficiencies might be corrected by a twofold policy: the reform of the pension system, highly desirable but unlikely to be politically feasible in the current Italian institutional setting, and the introduction of a sufficiently large unemployment benefit for musicians, step that has a general interest for any second-best economy and not only for the case of the musicians' labour market, and that might instead be viable under certain circumstances. (Labour) |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9914.2012.00554.x/full |
