Reassessing Labour Market Reforms: A Critique

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This paper provides a critique of Faccini (2014) that allegedly shows that temporary contracts lead to lower unemployment in Europe. Using Faccini's data and his estimation methods, we show that the Fixed Effects estimation results collapse when we make slight alterations in the sample size or the independent variables used. The Arellano-Bond estimates are meaningless since the number of instruments is almost equal to the number of observations. To conclude we find that there is no evidence to support the conclusion that greater use of temporary contracts would decrease unemployment.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8385

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Labor Economics: General ; Labor Economics Policies ; Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
• Thema: unemployment ; temporary contracts ; employment protection

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Junankar, Pramod N. (Raja) ; Jayanthakumaran, Muhunthan
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2014

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• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/101885
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ