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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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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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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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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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Performance Pay and the Gender Wage Gap : Evidence from Spain

de la Rica, Sara - 2010

This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance … is determined in a more competitive fashion than the other wage components, one would expect, in principle, to find a low …

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Labour Market Reallocation Effects of COVID-19 Policies in Spain : A Tale of Two Recessions

Diaz, Antonia; Dolado, Juan Jose; Jáñez, Álvaro; … - 2023

This paper studies short-time work arrangements (ERTEs) when aggregate risk is partially sector-specific. In Spain, the Great Recession and the pandemic recession (aka the Great Contagion) can both be understood as being driven partially by large sector-specific shocks. However, the latter shows...

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