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Flexibility at the Margin and Labor Market Volatility in OECD Countries
Sala, Hector; Silva, José I.; Toledo, Manuel - 2021
achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at the margin produces a gap in separation costs … de labor market volatility. This increased volatility is partially reverted when limitations in the duration and number … explain the similar volatility observed in many regulated OECD labor markets with flexibility at the margin vis-à-vis the …
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Flexibility at the margin and labor market volatility in OECD countries
Sala, Hector (contributor); Silva, José Ignacio (contributor) - 2008
achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at the margin produces a gap in separation costs … de labor market volatility. This increased volatility is partially reverted when limitations in the duration and number … explain the similar volatility observed in many regulated OECD labor markets with flexibility at the margin vis-à-vis the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652705
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Employment protection in dual labor markets : any amplification of macroeconomic shocks?
Lochner, Benjamin - 2014
insight is that duality leads to a non-linear reaction of unemployment volatility for both supply and demand shocks. A … subsequent empirical panel data analysis confirms the model predictions. Uncovering the non-linearity in unemployment volatility …
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Should the maximum duration of fixed-term contracts increase in recessions? : evidence from a law reform
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
Fixed-term contracts (FTCs) may be an important tool to promote hirings and employment, particularly in recessions or when permanent contracts are costly. Therefore, it may be useful to let some of the legal parameters of FTCs (as well as those of other labour market institutions) vary...
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The third worker : assessing the trade-off between employees and contractors
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
Firms make labour demand decisions not only between permanent and non-permanent employees but also increasingly more between employees and contractors. Indeed, this third work format can be attractive, also when employment protection law is restrictive. This paper examines empirically this...
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Employment effects of restricting fixed-term contracts: theory and evidence
Cahuc, Pierre; Carry, Pauline; Malherbet, Franck; … - 2022
This paper examines a labor law reform implemented in Portugal in 2009 which restricted the use of fixed-term contracts to reduce labor market segmentation. The reform targeted establishments created by large firms above a specific size threshold, covering about 15% of total employment. Drawing...
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Should the maximum duration of fixed-term contracts increase in recessions? : evidence from a law reform
Martins, Pedro S. - 2017
Fixed-term contracts (FTCs) may be an important tool to promote employment, particularly in recessions or when permanent contracts are costly. Therefore, it may be useful to vary some of the legal parameters of FTCs over the business cycle, namely increasing their flexibility during downturns....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118965
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The relevance of post-match LTC : why has the Spanish labor market become as volatile as the US one?
Sala, Hector (contributor); Silva, José Ignacio (contributor) - 2005
forces governing this volatility are the gaps between entrants and incumbents in terms of separation costs and productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003158646
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High discounts and low fundamental surplus : an equivalence result for unemployment fluctuations
Mitra, Indrajit; Seo, Taeuk; Xu, Yu - 2021
Ljungqvist and Sargent (2017) (LS) show that unemployment fluctuations can be understood in terms of a quantity they call the "fundamental surplus." However, their analysis ignores risk premia, a force that Hall (2017) shows is important in understanding unemployment fluctuations. We show how...
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The Relevance of Post-Match Ltc : Why Has the Spanish Labor Market Become as Volatile as the Us One?
Sala, Hector; Silva, José I. - 2021
forces governing this volatility are the gaps between entrants and incumbents in terms of separation costs and productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318172