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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000
In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262363
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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the jon loss rate is much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703292
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Are the Unemployed Unemployable?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
may have increased unemployment, and shows that this is likely to occur if technological change is associated with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666594
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Flexibility vs. rigidity : does Spain have the worst of both worlds?
Saint-Paul, Gilles (contributor) - 2000
, which leads to expectation of reversal. -- Unemployment ; flexibility ; temporary contracts ; unemployment duration … ; unemployment recurrence ; on the job search ; labor force composition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009520500
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Flexibility vs. Rigidity : Does Spain Have the Worst of Both Worlds?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000
In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159118
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Hiring and firing costs, adverse selection and long-term unemployment
Kugler, Adriana D.; Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000
In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325985
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Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection
Saint-Paul, Gilles; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2000
In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262352
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Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection and Long-term Unemployment
Kugler, Adriana D.; Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762182
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The Rise and Persistence of Rigidities
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
In this paper we argue that employment protection legislation is more likely to arise when the rents earned by the employed over their alternative wage is greater. The model explains why economies with greater real wage rigidity also have greater employment protection. The model also predicts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791239
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The High Unemployment Trap
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
spirit of Blanchard and Summers (1988), the model can generate multiple equilibria, with a low-quits/high-unemployment … equilibrium coexisting with a high-quits/low-unemployment equilibrium. Under weak conditions, low-unemployment equilibria Pareto … dominate high-unemployment equilibria. Mobility premia improve aggregate welfare but may increase unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791589