The Impact of the Italian "Mobility Lists" on Employment Chances: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Archives

the Mobility Lists is an Italian labour market policy targeted to dismissed employees combining a wage subsidy to an income support. Benefits varies according to the size of the dismissing firm and with the worker age at dismissal. We exploit the variability of these provisions to evaluate the impact of the programme. We use linked administrative data from two sources for two Italian provinces to evaluate the impact of the policy on the probability to work over the 36 months subsequent to enrolment in the Lists. The impact of being eligible for an additional year in the Lists is negative for male workers receiving the income support while it is positive for those eligible only for the active component. The impact is overall negligible among females. The impact of receiving the income support is negative except among young males.