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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6186

Classification and Topics

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

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bentolila, Samuel ; Dolado, Juan José ; Jimeno, Juan F.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58640
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201201103619
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET