Alonso-Borrego, César; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Job security provisions are commonly invoked to explain the high and persistent European unemployment rates. This … both its unemployment and its share of fixed-term employment are the highest. We find that fixedterm contracts increase … unemployment, reduce output, and raise productivity. The welfare effects are ambiguous. …