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Temporary employment, job flows and productivity : a tale of two reforms
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Leonardi, Marco - 2011
We investigate the effects of two reforms of temporary employment using panel data on Italian firms. We exploit variation in their implementation across regions and sectors for identification. We find that the reform of apprenticeship contracts increased job turnover and induced the substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230787
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Dual labour markets revisited
Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan J.; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2019
This paper provides an overview of recent research on dual labour markets. Theoretical and empirical contributions on the labour-market effects of dual employment protection legislation are revisited, as well as factors behind its resilience and policies geared towards correcting its negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966680
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A structural model of tenure and specific investments
Teulings, Coen N.; Ende, Martin Adriaan van der - 2001
Though a lot of work has been done on the distribution of job tenures, we are still uncertain about its main determinants. In this paper, we stress random shocks to match productivity after the start of an employment relation. The specificity of investment makes hiring and separation decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399579
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General training by firms, apprentice contracts, and public policy
Malcomson, James M.; Maw, James W.; McCormick, Barry - 2002
Workers will not pay for general on-the-job training if contracts are not enforceable. Firms may if there are mobility frictions. Private information about worker productivities, however, prevents workers who quit receiving their marginal products elsewhere. Their new employers then receive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409458
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Fair pay and a wagebill argument for wage rigidity and excessive employment variability
Thomas, Jonathan P. - 2000
This paper considers a two-period optimal contracting model in which firms make new hires in the second period subject to the constraint that they cannot pay discriminate either against or in favour of the new hires. Under an assumption on the information available to workers, it is shown that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781504
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Reduction of employment protection in Europe : a comparative fuzzy-set analysis
Ochel, Wolfgang; Rohwer, Anja - 2009
, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the conditions of the reduction of employment protection and takes a closer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897340
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008757525
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009387232
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The cushioning effect of immigrant mobility
Özgüzel, Cem - 2021
During the Great Recession, immigrants reacted to the drop in labour demand in Spain through internal migration or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607464
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The political economy of two-tier reforms of employment protection in Europe
Ochel, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008
the strictness of EPL of permanent jobs (with the exception of Spain). Since 1990, such two-tier reforms have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790764