lower, when compared to Spain. This suggests that the hardship of being unemployed is higher in Portugal. Unemployment …, can explain this disparity. In this chapter we present some estimates of the loss of consumption suffered by unemployed …In Portugal real wage flexibility, at the macroeconomic level, is noticeably higher, while unemployment duration is …

This paper addresses the role played by Public Sector (PS) employment across different OECD labour markets in … gender differences in labour market transitions of workers among inactivity, unemployment, working in the PS and working in … female labour market outcomes. To do so, we provide some empirical evidence about cross-country gender differences in choice …

‘atypical’/temporary/part-time employment contracts for new entrants in the labour market. As a result, the incidence of … other countries. Secondly, we address the puzzle of why temporary employment in Spain remains so high, despite recent labour … contrast with other institutional reforms of the labour market, there seems to be a common strategy of maintaining strict …

, finally, (vii) What is the overall cross-country time-series evidence regarding the employment effect of the minima? The aim …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes different regulations for certain groups of … workers who face more disadvantages in the labour market (young workers, women, unskilled workers, etc.) with the aim of … improving their employability. Well-known examples are the introduction of atypical employment contracts (e.g. temporary and …

externality on unskilled jobs and weakens the labour market position of low-educated workers. This last feature changes the …This paper considers a matching model with heterogeneous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and workers (low- and high … unskilled jobs and continue to search for skilled jobs. Our findings show that on-the-job search introduces an additional source …

labour market institutions. Our aim is to explain the main sources of shocks to unemployment, and the most relevant features …In this paper we analyse the underlying causes behind Spanish unemployment which is now at 24%. We interpret this … of their transmission mechanism. To do so we use a structural VAR approach in modelling the Spanish labour market. …

This Paper considers a matching model of heterogeneous workers and jobs, which includes on-the-job search. High …-educated workers transitorily accept unskilled jobs and continue to search for skilled jobs. We study the implications of this model … for the unemployment rates of high and low-educated workers, for the share of mismatched workers and wage inequality both …

Spain and Portugal are two neighbour economies which share many characteristics. Spanish unemployment is more than … double Portuguese unemployment, however. In this chapter we resort to Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) techniques to … ascertain which shocks and what propagation mechanism underlie the functioning of the labour markets in both countries. Our …