Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20036 
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Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 791
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In the mid-1980s, many European countries introduced fixed-term contracts. Since then their labor markets have become more dynamic. This paper studies the possible implications of such reforms for the duration distribution of unemployment. I estimate a parametric duration model using cross-sectional data drawn from the Spanish Labor Force Survey from 1980 to 1994 to analyze the probability of leaving unemployment before and after the introduction of fixed-term contracts. I find that the difference in the probability of leaving unemployment between the short and long term unemployed increased after this reform. Semi-parametric estimation of the model also shows that for long spells, the probability of leaving unemployment decreased between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s.
Subjects: 
cross-sectional data
duration model
turnover
JEL: 
C41
J63
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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