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Does immigration affect the Phillips curve? : some evidence for Spain

Bentolila, Samuel (contributor); Dolado, Juan J. (contributor) - 2007

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When credit dries up : job losses in the Great Recession

Bentolila, Samuel; Jansen, Marcel; Jiménez, Gabriel; … - 2013

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223447

Spanish unemployment : the end of the wild ride?

Bentolila, Samuel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2003

Over the last quarter century, the Spanish unemployment rate has gone from 3.5 per cent to 24 per cent of the labor force, and then back to 13 per cent. In this paper we describe this extraordinary evolution more in detail, discuss the main shocks and institutions behind it, and provide a set of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507890

Two-tier labor markets in the great recession : France vs. Spain

Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan J.; Le … - 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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Reforming an insider-outsider labor market : the Spanish experience

Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan J.; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2011

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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Are the Spanish long-term unemployed unemployable?

Bentolila, Samuel; García Peréz, José Ignacio; … - 2017

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

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Does dual vocational education and training pay off?

Bentolila, Samuel; Cabrales, Antonio; Jansen, Marcel - 2023

This paper analyzes the causal impact of dual vocational education and training (VET) on the labor market insertion of youth. Using matched education and social security records, we estimate the causal impact of a major reform that introduced a new dual track, which combines firm- and...

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