Labor Contracts and Flexibility: Evidence From a Labor Market Reform in Spain

Aguirregabiria, Vı́ctor; Alonso‐Borrego, César

doi:10.1111/ecin.12077

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“…using LP's (2003) approach. Overall, the coefficients on labour, capital and materials are in line with those available in the literature using data on Spanish firms (see, e.g., Aguirregabiría andAlonso-Borrego 2014, andGonzález andMiles 2012). As expected, the estimate of parameter ϑ is always above unity.…”

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

Dolado

Ortigueira

Stucchi

2016

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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 conversion rates by exerting less effort, while firms react by providing less paid-for training. Both channels lead to a decline in TFP. We test these implications in a large panel of Spanish manufacturing firms from 1991 to 2005, looking at the effects of three labour market reforms which entailed substantial changes in the firing-costs gap. Our empirical findings provide some support for the above-mentioned mechanism.

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

Dolado

Ortigueira

Stucchi

2016

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“…Focusing on male school dropouts at age 16, they use a cohort regression discontinuity design comparing young workers who entered the labor market just before and right after the reform, under the assumption that differences in entry dates are fairly random. In contrast to Autor and Houseman (2010), the estimates have the same sign and their magnitude is in the same ballpark as other studies which either use OLS regressions with a large set of controls (see e.g., Amuedo-Dorantes and Serrano-Padial 2007; Güell and Petrongolo 2007) or dynamic simulation techniques (Aguirregabiria and Alonso-Borrego 2014).…”

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Dual employment protection and (lack of) on-the-job training: PIAAC evidence for Spain and other European countries

Cabrales

Dolado

Mora

2017

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Using micro data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), we first document how having a temporary contract in Spain is associated to lower levels of on-the-job training (OJT). Next, we find that this OJT gap is positively correlated with gaps in the literacy and numeracy scores achieved by these two types of workers in the PIAAC study. Although we choose Spain as a case study of a dual labor market, we also provide cross-country evidence showing that OJT gaps are lower in those European labor markets where dualism is less entrenched than in those where it is more extended.Keywords Dual labor market · On-the-job training · Cognitive skills · Severance payWe are grateful to the Editor (Nezih Guner), two anonymous referees, Andrea Bassanini, Roman Fossati, Andrea Ichino, Greg Jolivet, Stepan Jurajda and Helene Turon, as well as participants in the CAGE conference on "Education, Human Capital and Labor Market Outcomes" (Venice), ESSLE 2014 (Ammersee) and seminars at Bristol, IMT-Lucca and Padua for useful comments and suggestions that improved the paper. We also wish to thank Nicolas Escribano for excellent research assistance.

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“…Este dato verifica la tendencia creciente hacia la flexibilización del mercado laboral para dar respuesta a la necesidad de mano de obra en cada momento así como la necesidad de generar autoempleo (Aguirregabiria y Alonso-Borrego, 2009;Amadeo y Horton, 1997).…”

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Satisfacción laboral de trabajadores de actividades deportivas y recreativas en turismo activo

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Sánchez-Oliver

Alcaráz-Rodríguez

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RESUMEN:La satisfacción laboral es un estado emocional sobre la percepción subjetiva de las experiencias laborales de los trabajadores, que afecta directamente en la calidad del servicio prestado. Por ello, El objetivo del estudio analizar la satisfacción laboral de los trabajadores de turismo activo y sus condiciones de trabajo, y el efecto de estas en su satisfacción laboral en la comunidad autónoma de Andalucía. Para determinar los niveles de satisfacción laboral, se utilizó la herramienta de "Overall Job Satisfaction", de fácil uso y recomendada por el Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales del Estado español. La muestra estuvo compuesta por 218 profesionales del sector del turismo activo andaluz, con una media de edad de 34 años, (73,8% hombres y 26,2% mujeres). De los resultados del presente estudio, podemos concluir que los trabajadores de turismo activo en Andalucía, a modo general, están satisfechos, ejercen su profesión por cuenta propia y son mayoritariamente hombres. Del mismo modo, también podemos decir que la satisfacción de estos trabajadores no guarda relación con las siguientes condiciones laborales: actividad desempeñada en la organización, tipo de contrato, realización de otras funciones propias de la actividad, horas de dedicación semanal o el sueldo percibido. Palabras clave: Ocio; deporte; turismo; trabajador; satisfacción.ABSTRACT: Job satisfaction is an emotional state on the subjective perception of workers' work experiences, which directly affects the quality of the service provided. Therefore, the objective of this study is to analyze the labor satisfaction of active tourism workers and their working conditions, and the effect of these on their job satisfaction in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. To determine the levels of job satisfaction, the "Overall Job Satisfaction" tool, which was easy to use and recommended by the Spanish Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, was used. The sample consisted of 218 professionals from the Andalusian active tourism sector, with a mean age of 34 years (73.8% men and 26.2% women). From the results of the present study, we can conclude that the active tourism workers in Andalusia, in general, are satisfied, practice their profession on their own and are mostly men. In the same way, we can also say that the satisfaction of these workers is not related to the following working conditions: activity performed in the organization, type of contract, performance of other functions of the activity, hours of weekly dedication or the salary received.

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Labor Contracts and Flexibility: Evidence From a Labor Market Reform in Spain

Cited by 58 publications

References 56 publications

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

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

Dual employment protection and (lack of) on-the-job training: PIAAC evidence for Spain and other European countries

Satisfacción laboral de trabajadores de actividades deportivas y recreativas en turismo activo

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