Opting Out of Centralized Collective Bargaining: Evidence from Italy

We thank Manudeep Bhuller, David Card, Pat Kline, Salvatore Lattanzio (discussant), Katrine Løken, Enrico Moretti, Uta Schoenberg, and audiences at the NBER Labor Studies meeting, the 6th Bank of Italy-CEPR Workshop on Labour Market Policies and Institutions, the 18th CSEF-IGIER Symposium on Economics and Institutions, the Bergen Labor Workshop, CReAM-RFBerlin Workshops, the 17th Nordic Summer Institute in Labor Economics in Uppsala, VisitINPS seminars, VisitINPS VI Conference, UC Berkeley, University of Southern California, University of Siena, LMU Munich, University of Barcelona, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, VATT Helsinki, University of Konstanz, ifo Institute Fürth, and IWH-Halle. We also thank Gabriele Rovigatti and coauthors for sharing their data on shop opening hours liberalization. Several details regarding the institutional context are drawn from conversations with Mario Sassi and Guido Lazzarelli, who we also thank. Dustmann, Giannetto and Incoronato acknowledge funding from the Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin) through the project "Institutions, Wage Setting and Labour Market Performance in Continental Europe: Evidence from Italy." Lacava acknowledges funding by Next Generation EU (Growing Resilient, INclusive and Sustainable PE00000018 – CUP E63C22002140007). The realization of this article was made possible thanks to the VisitINPS Scholars program. The findings and conclusions expressed are solely those of the authors and do not represent the views of INPS or the National Bureau of Economic Research.