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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession : France vs. Spain

Bentolila, Samuel - 2010

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We … contracts and the less restrictive rules regarding the use of the latter contracts in Spain. Using a calibrated search and …

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The NRU and the Evolution of Regional Disparities in Spanish Unemployment

Bande, Roberto - 2011

On both theoretical and empirical grounds, this paper provides evidence that refutes the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in the unemployment rate. We first present our analytical framework, which follows the chain reaction...

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When Credit Dries Up : Job Losses in the Great Recession

Bentolila, Samuel - 2013

We use a unique dataset to estimate the impact of a large credit supply shock on employment in Spain. We exploit marked …

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Does Part-Time Work Help Unemployed Workers to Find Full-Time Work? Evidence from Spain

Kyyrä, Tomi - 2017

This paper examines whether part-time work acts as a bridge towards full-time work for unemployed workers in Spain. We …

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Are the Spanish Long-Term Unemployed Unemployable?

Bentolila, Samuel - 2017

Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects …

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The Social Cost of Unemployment : The Spanish Labour Market from a Social Welfare Approach

Gorjón, Lucía - 2018

This paper proposes a protocol for considering the social cost of unemployment by taking into account three different aspects: incidence, severity and hysteresis. Incidence refers to the conventional unemployment rate; severity takes in both unemployment duration and the associated income loss;...

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New Job Matches and Their Stability Before and During the Crisis

Nagore Garcia, Amparo - 2015

Using administrative records data from the Spanish Social Security Administration, we analyse the nature and stability of job matches starting in two different years: during the economic boom in 2005, and during the recession in 2009. We compare the individual and job and firm characteristics in...

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Feeling Useless : The Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health in the Great Recession

Farré, Lidia - 2015

This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the construction sector to identify the causal effect of job loss. Our results suggest that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10...

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Gender Differentials in Unemployment Ins and Outs During the Great Recession in Spain

de la Rica, Sara - 2015

of a whole business cycle, i.e. 2000‐2013. We focus on Spain – a country hit hard by unemployment increases in downturns …. Our results indicate that unemployment outs are crucial in understanding changes in unemployment rates in Spain …

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The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitions to Employment and Early Retirement for Older Workers in Four European Countries

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021

-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a … unemployed which offer a pathway to early retirement such as, Germany and Spain, older displaced workers exhibit lower re …

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