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When credit dries up : job losses in the Great Recession
Bentolila, Samuel; Jansen, Marcel; Jiménez, Gabriel; … - 2013
We use a unique dataset to estimate the impact of a large credit supply shock on employment in Spain. We exploit marked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225894
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Has the economic crisis worsened the work-related stress and mental health of temporary workers in Spain?
Bartoll, Xavier; Gil, Joan; Ramos, Raúl - 2018
This paper analyses the causal effects of temporary employment on work-related stress and mental health before (2006/07) and during the economic crisis (2011/12) and examines whether the economic recession worsened these two health outcomes. To control for selection bias, propensity scores (PS)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891895
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The recovery from the Great Recession: a long, evolving expansion
Shambaugh, Jay C.; Strain, Michael R. - 2021
Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405441
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The German labor market during the Great Recession : shocks and institutions
Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2018
This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of institutions (short-time work, government spending rules)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916540
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Is the deficit under control? : a generational accounting perspective on fiscal policy and labour market trends in Spain
Bonin, Holger; Abío, Gemma; Berenguer, Eduard; Gil, Joan; … - 2001
government budget, as social insurance in Spain is not actuarially fair. Finally, we also assess the impact of a decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401525
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More alike than different : the Spanish and Irish labour markets before and after the crisis
Agnese, Pablo; Salvador, Pablo F. - 2011
This paper analyses the labour markets of Spain and Ireland, which have experienced a severe downturn in the recent … global crisis as reflected by the largest increases in their unemployment rates among other developed economies. Spain and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307347
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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/10009312950
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Feeling useless : the effect of unemployment on mental health in the Great Recession
Farré, Lídia; Fasani, Francesco; Mueller, Hannes - 2015
This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the construction sector to identify the causal effect of job loss. Our results suggest that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308499
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Understanding the effects of homeownership and regional unemployment levels on migration during the economic crisis in Spain
Palomares-Linares, Isabel; Ham, Maarten van - 2016
economic crisis. Spain is also a country which is characterised by a very high percentage of homeownership, with more than 83 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543200
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Labour market reallocation effects of COVID-19 policies in Spain : a tale of two recessions
Díaz, Antonia; Dolado, Juan J.; Jáñez, Álvaro; … - 2023
This paper studies short-time work arrangements (ERTEs) when aggregate risk is partially sector-specific. In Spain, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250592