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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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This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter...
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how having a temporary contract in Spain is associated to lower levels of on-the-job training (OJT). Next, we find that … in the PIAAC study. Although we choose Spain as a case study of a dual labor market, we also provide cross …
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This paper analyzes how changes in the firing-costs gap between permanent and temporary workers affect firms’ TFP in a dual labour market. We argue that, under plausible conditions, firms’ temp-to-perm conversion rates go down when this gap increases. Temporary workers respond to lower...
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This paper updates the available evidence on the public-private wage gap in Spain, which dates back to 2012. Through … distribution by gender and education have evolved during and after the Great Recession. Conventional Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions …
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