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current institutions, past performance during recessions, and the policy measures adopted during the pandemic. Emphasis is …
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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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Temporary employment contracts allowing unrestricted dismissals were introduced in Spain in 1984 and quickly came to … costs for young workers. We also find positive effects on the transitions from unemployment and temporary employment into … had little effect on dismissals. -- temporary employment ; dismissal costs ; payroll taxes ; European unemployment …
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This paper examines the empirical evidence regarding the poor performance of the youth labor market in Spain over the … last two decades, which entails very high unemployment for both higher and lower educated workers, symptoms of over …
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stepping-stone or dead-end nature of temporary contracts, their effects on employment, unemployment, churn, training …
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We document three changes in postwar US macroeconomic dynamics: (i) the procyclicality of labor productivity has vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real wage has risen. We propose an explanation for all three...
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results point out that EPL reforms achieve the largest reduction in unemployment when they are targeted to workers with lower …
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We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011-2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased in...
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for the unemployment rates of high and low-educated workers, for the share of mismatched workers and wage inequality both …
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accounted for. In this paper, we take these composition effects into consideration and compute wage growth in Spain during the … wage growth in the Spanish economy during recessions (expansions) was, on average, significantly lower (higher) that the …
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