Flexibility vs. rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both worlds?

Gilles Saint-Paul

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Abstract: In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the jon loss rate is much higher, putting Spain half-way between France and the US. This suggests that while Spain has borne the full cost of its labor market reforms in terms of job precarity, the benefits in terms of job creation have been quite modest. We hypothesize that this has been due to the reform’s credibility being imperfect, which leads to expectation of reversal.

Keywords: Unemployment; labor market flows; job finding; job loss; flexibility; temporary contracts; labor market reform; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J20 J21 J23 J41 J42 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-03
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