Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience

Juan Dolado, Samuel Bentolila and Juan F Jimeno

No 8691, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labour 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 labour market institutions. While the Great Recession and the start of the sovereign debt crisis triggered two labour reforms, the political economy equilibrium has not allowed them to be transformational enough.

Keywords: Temporary contracts; Dualism; Labour market reform; Political economy; Great recession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H29 J23 J38 J41 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (14)

Downloads: (external link)
https://cepr.org/publications/DP8691 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Reforming an insider-outsider labor market: the Spanish experience (2012)
Working Paper: Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience (2012)
Working Paper: Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience (2011)
Working Paper: Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience (2011)
Working Paper: Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience (2011)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:8691

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://cepr.org/publications/DP8691

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX, UK.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CEPR ().