Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Leombruni Roberto
Author-Email: roberto.leombruni@unito.it
Author-Name: Mosca Michele 
Author-Email: michele.mosca@unina.it
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Turin
Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.est.unito.it/
Title: The lifetime gender gap in Italy. Does the pension system countervail labour market outcomes?
Abstract: In Italy large work career gender gaps currently ex ist, particularly regarding wages and activity rates.
This paper investigates the issue looking at lifetime incomes, where from the one side all the career gaps are 
sum med up, from the other the redistribution acted by the pension system may mitigate the differences. Exploiting 
an original database on entire work careers, we document how the pay gap constantly widens with age and how women 
tend to cumulate a lower number of eligible working years. Both gaps have an impact on the pension calculation, 
so that at retirement gender differences are even higher. By means of a microsimulation model we show that the 
pension system partially countervails labour market outcomes, implying lower differences in lifetime in comes. 
However, due to the current transition to an actuarially neutral system, the effect will vanish, posing some
concerns about the future prospects of gender income inequality 
Length: 26 pages
Creation-Date: 2013-01
File-URL: http://www.est.unito.it/do/home.pl/Download?doc=/allegati/wp2013dip/wp_2_2013.pdf
File-Format: Application/PDF
Handle: RePEc:uto:dipeco:201302