Does dual employment protection affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms

Does dual employment protection affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms

Abstract This paper analyzes how changes in the firing-costs gap between permanent and temporary workers affect firms’ TFP in a dual labour market. We argue that, under plausible conditions, firms’ temp-to-perm conversion rates go down when this gap increases. Temporary workers respond to lower conv...

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Main Authors: Juan J. Dolado, Salvador Ortigueira, Rodolfo Stucchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2016-11-01
Series:SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association
Subjects:
Firms’ TFP
Workers’ effort
Training
Temporary contracts
Firing costs
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13209-016-0150-9

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