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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession : France vs. Spain

Bentolila, Samuel - 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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Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market : The Spanish Experience

Bentolila, Samuel - 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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When Credit Dries Up : Job Losses in the Great Recession

Bentolila, Samuel - 2013

We use a unique dataset to estimate the impact of a large credit supply shock on employment in Spain. We exploit marked …

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Are the Spanish Long-Term Unemployed Unemployable?

Bentolila, Samuel - 2017

Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects …

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The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany

Bergemann, Annette - 2011

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...

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The IZA Evaluation Dataset : Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making

Caliendo, Marco - 2011

The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many European countries. In recent years, many of them have opened their administrative databases for evaluation studies. The advantages of administrative data are straightforward: they are accurate, contain a large number...

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Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality

Caliendo, Marco - 2012

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up "marginal employment" up to a threshold without any deduction from their benefits. Marginal employment can be considered as a wage subsidy as it lowers labour costs for firms owing to...

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The Effects of Living Wage Laws on Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families : What Do We Know Now?

Neumark, David - 2013

We provide updated evidence on the effects of living wage laws in U.S. cities, relative to the earlier research covering only the first six or seven years of existence of these laws. There are some challenges to updating the evidence, as the CPS data on which it relies changed geographic coding...

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Simulating the Economic Impacts of Living Wage Mandates Using New Public and Administrative Data : Evidence for New York City

Neumark, David - 2013

Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no information on the effects of the policy in the jurisdiction in question. And the policy may have...

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Fighting Youth Unemployment : The Effects of Active Labor Market Policies

Caliendo, Marco - 2012

A substantial number of young unemployed participate in active labor market programs (ALMP) in Germany each year. While the aims of these programs are clear – a fast re-integration into employment or enrollment in further education – a comprehensive analysis of their effectiveness has yet to...

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