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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8385

Classification and Topics

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

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Junankar, Pramod N. (Raja) ; Jayanthakumaran, Muhunthan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/101885
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET