Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58640 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6186
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
temporary contracts
dualism
labor market reform
political economy
Great Recession
JEL: 
H29
J23
J38
J41
J64
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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