abstract: 'We investigate the long term employment outcomes of Italian injured

  workers over a time period when the country introduced policy reforms

  that increased labor market flexibility but reduced job security. Using

  an employer-employee database matched with injury data, we observe that

  both before and after the reforms almost one-fourth of injured workers

  were no longer employed 3years after their first return to work. We note

  a slight decrease in this share after the reforms (from 24 to 22\%)

  while we find a decline in workers'' job security as measured by their

  probability of re-employment in permanent contracts. We use multinomial

  logit estimates to study how liberalization reforms were associated with

  a changing role of individual, firm, and injury characteristics in

  shaping long-term employment outcomes of injured workers after their

  recovery period. Heterogeneity analyses show that low wage employees,

  women, immigrants, and individuals who suffered a more severe injury

  were penalized more. Pre-injury individual characteristics became

  stronger predictors of long-term employment than firms'' characteristics.

  In particular, we find that the advantage provided by working in larger

  firms was significant before the liberalization reforms, but disappeared

  afterward, while the advantage provided by human capital became more

  relevant after the liberalization.'
affiliation: 'Galizzi, M (Corresponding Author), Univ Massachusetts Lowell, Dept Econ,
  Lowell, MA 01854 USA.

  Galizzi, Monica, Univ Massachusetts Lowell, Dept Econ, Lowell, MA 01854 USA.

  Leombruni, Roberto; Pacelli, Lia, Univ Torino, Dept Econ \& Stat, I-10153 Turin,
  Italy.

  Leombruni, Roberto; Pacelli, Lia, Lab R Revelli, Turin, Italy.'
article-number: '9'
author: Galizzi, Monica and Leombruni, Roberto and Pacelli, Lia
author-email: monica\_galizzi@uml.edu
author_list:
- family: Galizzi
  given: Monica
- family: Leombruni
  given: Roberto
- family: Pacelli
  given: Lia
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1186/s12651-019-0260-5
eissn: 2510-5027
files: []
issn: 2510-5019
journal: JOURNAL FOR LABOUR MARKET RESEARCH
keywords: 'Occupational injuries; Return to work; Maximum medical improvement;

  Deregulation; Multinomial logit; Matched employer-employee data; Italy'
keywords-plus: 'TO-WORK; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT; DISABILITY;

  HEALTH; RISK; JOB; CONSEQUENCES; FLEXIBILITY; PATTERNS'
language: English
month: JUN 12
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '55'
orcid-numbers: Galizzi, Monica/0000-0003-0518-2045
papis_id: 2daa46de27d2a487e2a96492ca111363
ref: Galizzi2019successfulreturn
times-cited: '1'
title: 'Successful return to work during labor market liberalization: the case of
  Italian injured workers'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000471271700001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '0'
volume: '53'
web-of-science-categories: Industrial Relations \& Labor
year: '2019'