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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession: France vs. Spain

Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan Jose; … - CESifo - 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 points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession : France vs. Spain

Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan J.; Le … - 2021

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Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience

Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan Jose; Jimeno, Juan F. - CESifo - 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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Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market : The Spanish Experience

Bentolila, Samuel - 2011

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Fixed-Term and Permanent Employment Contracts: Theory and Evidence

Cao, Shutao; Shao, Enchuan; Silos, Pedro - CESifo - 2010

This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment contracts in an environment with ex-ante identical workers and employers. Workers under fixed-term contracts can be dismissed at no cost while permanent employees enjoy labor protection. In a labor market...

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Job Search, Human Capital and Wage Inequality

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012

The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labor market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...

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Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies

Collischon, Matthias - 2018

This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...

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Workforce Location and Equilibrium Unemployment in a Duocentric Economy with Matching Frictions

Lehmann, Etienne - 2015

This article examines unemployment disparities and efficiency in a densely populated economy with two job centers and … changes in the workforce distribution have non-negligible effects on unemployment rates, wages, and net output, but cannot be …

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The Matching Process : Search or Mismatch?

Gottfries, Nils - 2017

that high unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies; hiring appears to be determined by labour demand while frictions …

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Unemployment in an Interdependent World

Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2010

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

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