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Two-tier Employment Protection Reforms: The Spanish Experience

Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan Jose; Jimeno, Juan F. - In: CESifo DICE Report 06 (2008) 4, pp. 49-56

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Does Immigration Affect the Phillips Curve? Some Evidence for Spain

Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan José; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2007

estimate this curve for Spain since 1980 and find that while the fall in unemployment over the last 8 years comes along with an …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273725

Explaining Youth Labor Market Problems in Spain: Crowding-Out, Institutions, or Technology Shifts?

Jimeno, Juan F.; Felgueroso, Florentino; Dolado, Juan José - 2000

This paper examines the empirical evidence regarding the poor performance of the youth labor market in Spain over the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273747

A Matching Model of Crowding-Out and On-the-Job Search (with an Application to Spain)

Dolado, Juan José; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2002

This paper considers a matching model of heterogenous workers and jobs which includes onthe-job search. High-educated workers transitorily accept unskilled jobs and continue to search for skilled jobs. We study the implications of this model for the unemployment rates of high and low-educated...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273750

Does immigration affect the Phillips curve?: some evidence for Spain

Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan José; Jimeno, Juan F. - 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 …' labor supply or bargaining power differ. Estimation of the curve for Spain indicates that the fall in unemployment since …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273772

A positive analysis of targeted employment protection legislation

Dolado, Juan José; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2007

In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes less strict dismissal procedures for specific groups of workers. This paper builds a simple matching model with heterogeneous workers in order to analyze this feature of EPL. We use the model to analyze the effects of reforms...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273847

Does immigration affect the Phillips curve? Some evidence for Spain

Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan José; Jimeno, Juan F. - 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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273850

Employment Consequences of Restrictive Permanent Contracts: Evidence from Spanish Labor Market Reforms

Kugler, Adriana D.; Jimeno, Juan F.; Hernanz, Virginia - 2003

Temporary employment contracts allowing unrestricted dismissals were introduced in Spain in 1984 and quickly came to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274498

Reforming an insider-outsider labor market: The Spanish experience

Benrolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan J.; Jimeno, Juan F. - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-29

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331954

Reforming an insider-outsider labor market: The Spanish experience

Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan Jose; 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280630