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Too many graduates? : an application of the Gottschalk-Hansen model to young British graduates between 2001 - 2010

O'Leary, Nigel; Sloane, Peter J. - 2014

There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates of return to graduates or graduate mark-ups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising supply of graduates, the literature on over-education...

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Do temporary contracts affect TFP? : evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms

Dolado, Juan J. (contributor); Stucchi, Rodolfo (contributor) - 2008

This paper evaluates the impact of the widespread use of fixed-term contracts in Spain on firms' TFP, via its effect on …

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A positive analysis of targeted employment protection legislation

Dolado, Juan J. (contributor); Jansen, Marcel (contributor); … - 2007

In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes less strict dismissal procedures for specific groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous workers in order to analyze this feature of EPL. We use the model to analyze the effects of reforms...

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Which factors determine the grades of undergraduate students in economics? : some evidence from Spain

Dolado, Juan J. (contributor); Morales, Eduardo (contributor) - 2006

This paper analyses the determinants of grades achieved in three core subjects by first-year Economics undergraduate students at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, over the period 2001-2005. Gender, nationality, type of school, specialization track at high school and the grades at the university...

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Performance pay and the gender wage gap : evidence from Spain

Rica, Sara de la; Dolado, Juan J.; Vegas, Raquel - 2010

-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall gender gap in Spain. Under the assumption that PP …

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Ceiling and floors : gender wage gaps by education in Spain

Rica, Sara de la (contributor); Dolado, Juan J. (contributor) - 2005

This paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain using individual data … the steep pattern found for other countries, the flatter evolution of the gap in Spain hides a composition effect when the …

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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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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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Dual labour markets and (lack of) on-the-job training : PIAAC evidence from Spain and other EU countries

Cabrales, Antonio; Dolado, Juan J.; Mora Villarrubia, … - 2014

Using the Spanish micro data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), we first document how the excessive gap in employment protection between indefinite and temporary workers leads to large differentials in on-the-job training (OTJ) against the latter....

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A matching model of crowding-out and on-the-job search (with an application to Spain)

Dolado, Juan J.; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2002

This paper considers a matching model of heterogenous workers and jobs which includes onthe-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...

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