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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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Fragmented stability : recalls and fixed-term contracts in the French labour market

Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Menestrier, Eloise - 2024

This study investigates in a European perspective the phenomenon of recalls, in which previously laid off or furloughed employees are rehired by the same employer. It specifically examines the French labour market, notable for its pronounced degree of contractual dualism. A novel theoretical...

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Labor market regulation and firm adjustments in skill demand

Bottasso, Anna; Bratti, Massimiliano; Cardullo, Gabriele; … - 2023

We study how changes in labor market regulation may trigger firm adjustments in skill demand. Leveraging rich administrative data from Italy, we investigate the effects of a reform that reduced firing costs for permanent employees and tightened temporary contracts' regulation to increase job...

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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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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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Reassessing labour market reforms : a critique

Junankar, Pramod N.; Jayanthakumaran, Muhunthan - 2014

unemployment in Europe. Using Faccini's data and his estimation methods, we show that the Fixed Effects estimation results collapse …

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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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