Reforming an insider-outsider labor market: The Spanish experience

Arbeitspapier

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 the fundamental features of labor market institutions. While the Great Recession and the start of the sovereign debt crisis triggered two labor reforms, the political economy equilibrium has not allowed them to be transformational enough.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6186

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Taxation and Subsidies: Other ; Labor Demand ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy ; Labor Contracts ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
• Thema: temporary contracts ; dualism ; labor market reform ; political economy ; Great Recession ; Arbeitsmarktflexibilität ; Insider-Outsider-Modell ; Reform ; Befristeter Arbeitsvertrag ; Dualer Arbeitsmarkt ; Spanien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bentolila, Samuel ; Dolado, Juan José ; Jimeno, Juan F.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58640
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201201103619
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ