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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 labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage...

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Markets for Reputation : Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009

We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by oneﾒs peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that overall quality matters for reputation, does the...

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Seniority Wages and the Role of Firms in Retirement

Frimmel, Wolfgang - 2015

expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement … incentives, e.g., social security wealth or health status, the steepness of the wage profile will have different incentives for …

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Differential Patterns between Private and Public Sector Wages in Spain

de León, Alba; Dolado, Juan Jose - 2022

This paper studies the wage differentials between the public and private sectors in Spain, as well as its distribution … across different educational levels and by gender. To do so, the well-known Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of mincerian wage … regressions is applied for both sectors, breaking down the (public-private) wage gap into a component explained by differences in …

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Not Working at Work : Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity

Burda, Michael C. - 2015

amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …

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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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Dual Labour Markets Revisited

Bentolila, Samuel - 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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Banking on Snow : Bank Capital, Risk, and Employment

Baumgartner, Simon; Stomper, Alex; Schober, Thomas; … - 2022

How does small-firm employment respond to exogenous labor productivity risk? We find that this depends on the capitalization of firms' local banks. The evidence comes from firms offering (quasi-) fixed employment to workers whose productivity depends on the weather. Weather risk reduces this...

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Do Temporary Contracts Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms

Dolado, Juan Jose; Stucchi, Rodolfo - 2021

This paper evaluates the impact of the widespread use of fixed-term contracts in Spain on firms' TFP, via its effect on workers' effort. We propose a simple analytical framework showing that, under plausible conditions, workers' effort depends positively on their perception (for given level of...

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Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time

Lee, Jungmin - 2011

How would people spend additional time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We examine the impacts of cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan around 1990 and Korea in the early 2000s. Using time-diaries from before and after these shocks,...

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