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Are the Spanish long-term unemployed unemployable?

Bentolila, Samuel; García Peréz, José Ignacio; … - 2017

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

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Reforming an insider-outsider labor market : the Spanish experience

Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan J.; Jimeno, Juan F. - 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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Two-tier labor markets in the Great Recession : France vs. Spain

Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan J.; Le … - 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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When credit dries up : job losses in the Great Recession

Bentolila, Samuel; Jansen, Marcel; Jiménez, Gabriel; … - 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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Does immigration affect the Phillips curve? : Some evidence for Spain

Bentolila, Samuel (contributor); Dolado, Juan J. (contributor) - 2007

The Phillips curve has flattened in Spain over 1995-2006: unemployment has fallen by 15 percentage points, with roughly … Spain over this period. We show that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is shifted by immigration if natives' and immigrants …' labour supply or bargaining power differ. Estimation of the curve for Spain indicates that the fall in unemployment since …

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Does dual vocational education and training pay off?

Bentolila, Samuel; Cabrales, Antonio; Jansen, Marcel - 2023

This paper analyzes the causal impact of dual vocational education and training (VET) on the labor market insertion of youth. Using matched education and social security records, we estimate the causal impact of a major reform that introduced a new dual track, which combines firm- and...

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