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Di Porto, Edoardo; Tealdi, Cristina - 2022

We investigate how the flexibility of temporary contracts affects the probability of young workers to be upgraded into permanent employment. Theoretically, we explore the workers' career development in response to the change in flexibility within a search and matching model; empirically, we...

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Taxation of temporary jobs : good intentions with bad outcomes?

Cahuc, Pierre; Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; … - 2016

This paper analyzes the consequences of the taxation of temporary jobs recently introduced in several European countries to induce firms to create more open-ended contracts and to increase the duration of jobs. The estimation of a job search and matching model on French data shows that the...

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The perverse effects of job-security provisions on job security in Italy : results from a regression discontinuity design

Hijzen, Alexander; Mondauto, Leopoldo; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2013

This paper analyses the impact of employment protection (EP) on the composition of the workforce and worker turnover using a unique firm-level dataset for Italy. The impact of employment protection is analyzed by means of a regression discontinuity design (RDD) that exploits the variation in EP...

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Geographic mobility over the life-cycle

Díaz, Antonia; Jáñez, Álvaro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2023

When mobility between locations is frictional, a person's economic well-being is partially determined by her place of birth. Using a life cycle model of mobility, we find that search frictions are the main impairment to the mobility of young people in Spain, and these frictions are particularly...

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Do firms demand temporary workers when they face workload fluctuation? : cross-country firm-level evidence on the conditioning effect of employment protection

Dräger, Vanessa; Marx, Paul - 2012

Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...

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The insider-outsider theory : a survey

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory … been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The first section deals with the theory, concerning how labor turnover … shocks. The second section deals with the insider-outsider theory in relation to two important economic institutions: unions …

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Employee referrals and efficiency wages

Kugler, Adriana D. - 2002

Many workers believe that personal contacts are crucial for obtaining jobs in high-wage sectors. On the other hand, firms in high-wage sectors report using employee referrals because they help provide screening and monitoring of new employees. This paper develops a matching model that can...

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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...

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From ultima ratio to mutual consent : the effects of changing employment protection doctrine

Batut, Cyprien; Maurin, Eric - 2019

In many countries, the termination of employment contracts has to be either on employer initiative or on employee initiative. Furthermore, the cost of the procedure is borne mainly by the contracting party who takes the initiative and there is little room for sharing costs. The implicit doctrine...

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The impact of restricting fixed-term contracts on labor and skill demand

Grasso, Giuseppe; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2023

This paper examines the impact of increasing the relative cost of fixed-term contracts on labor demand as well as the demand for standard measures of human capital and specific skill requirements. We evaluate a 2018 Italian labor law reform that raised the cost of fixed- term contracts while...

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