Structural Change, Welfare Systems, and Labour Reallocation

Tito Boeri is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan. Formerly Senior Economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), he is Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Comparative Economics.

• Introduction ; Chapter 1. The Puzzles of Transition ; Annex 1. Building blocks of the models of the speed of transition ; Chapter 2. The Timing of Reforms ; Annex 2. A simple model of transition ; Chapter 3. Safety Nets, Earning Inequalities, and Reallocation ; Annex 3. The structure of benefits and job reallocation ; Chapter 4. Returning to Europe ; Annex 4. Non-employment benefits and the informal sector

Presents policy prescriptions that take into account factors of political economy as well as the state of the policy-enforcement mechanisms in these countries.