Successful return to work during labor market liberalization: the case of Italian injured workers

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 2 Summary statistics

Period	Statistic	1994–1997	1998–2001	2002–2005
Lagged real daily wage	Mean	62.89	62.3	61.55
Wage above the mean wage by occupation in the firm	Share	0.27	0.25	0.25
Past intermittent spells	Mean	0.42	0.51	0.5
Number of employees in the firm	Median	25.08	23.33	22.33
Growing firms	Share	0.39	0.44	0.43
Shrinking firms	Share	0.25	0.24	0.23
Firm age	Mean	15.86	16.18	16.58
Excess turnover	Mean	0.31	0.33	0.32
Past illness rate	Mean	0.18	0.18	0.19
Years of experience plus firm tenure	Mean	7.17	8.19	9.1
Female	Share	0.08	0.09	0.09
Temporary contract	Share	0.08	0.14	0.16
Part time	Share	0.02	0.03	0.05
Migrants	Share	0.1	0.17	0.26
Manual occupation	Share	0.94	0.93	0.93
Worker’s age	Mean	36.7	36.93	37.96
Unemployment rate	Mean	7.65	6.5	5.44
North-west	Share	0.31	0.33	0.33
North east	Share	0.28	0.29	0.28
Center	Share	0.17	0.18	0.17
South	Share	0.24	0.21	0.22
Manufacturing	Share	57.36	53.77	48.5
Construction	Share	21.8	20.09	24.14
Services	Share	20.85	26.14	27.36
Fracture	Share	48.9	52.95	52.99
Anatomic loss	Share	8.58	7.87	8.65
Alien corpus	Share	42.53	39.18	38.36
Trunk	Share	0.3	0.3	0.3
Head	Share	25.1	32.5	33.1
Back	Share	8.1	9.5	7.7
Lower extremities	Share	19.2	19.9	21.2
Upper extremities	Share	37.3	37.8	37.9
Days off work after the injury	Mean	57.00	62.21	65.76

As explained in the text, we study only injuries which require immediate treatments at a hospital (fractures, anatomic losses and removals of an alien corpus)