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Employment Consequences of Restrictive Permanent Contracts: Evidence from Spanish Labor Market Reforms

Kugler, Adriana; Jimeno, Juan F.; Hernanz, Virginia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Temporary employment contracts allowing unrestricted dismissals were introduced in Spain in 1984 and quickly came to account for most new jobs. As a result, temporary employment increased from around 10% in the mid-eighties to more than 30% in the early nineties. In 1997, however, the Spanish...

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Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective

Sahin, Afsin; Tansel, Aysit; Berument, Hakan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with...

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Dual Employment Protection Legislation: A Framework for Analysis

Dolado, Juan J.; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

welfare. By using an extension of Mortensen-Pissarides’ (1994) search model where heterogeneous workers compete for the same …

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A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation

Dolado, Juan J.; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous workers in order to analyze this feature of …

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Explaining Youth Labor Market Problems in Spain: Crowding-Out, Institutions, or Technology Shifts?

Dolado, Juan J.; Felgueroso, Florentino; Jimeno, Juan F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

-education, and low intensity of on-the-job training. It also presents a simple matching model with two types of workers ("educated …

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Determinants of Transitions across Formal / Informal Sectors in Egypt

Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Informality is a salient feature of labor market in Egypt as it is the case with many developing countries. This is the first study of the determinants of worker transitions between various labor market states using panel data from Egypt. We first provide a diagnosis of dynamic worker flows...

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On-the-Job Search in a Matching Model with Heterogenous Jobs and Workers

Dolado, Juan J.; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper considers a matching model with heterogenous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and workers (low and high …-educated) which allows for on-the-job search by mismatched workers. The latter are high-educated workers who transitorily accept … unskilled jobs and continue to search for skilled jobs. Our findings show that on-the-job search introduces an additional source …

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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data

Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...

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Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Aksoy, Emre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper investigates the relationship between labor force participation rate and unemployment rate in Turkey a developing country. Cointegration analysis is carried out for the aggregate and gender and age specific series. The findings indicate that there is no long-run relationship between...

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Macroeconomic Policy and Unemployment by Economic Activity: Evidence from Turkey

Berument, Hakan; Dogan, Nukhet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper investigates how macroeconomic policy shocks in Turkey affect the total unemployment and provides evidence on the differential responses of the unemployment by sectors of economic activity. Our paper extends the previous work in two respects. First, we consider not only the response...

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