This article provides an overview of empirical and theoretical research on dual labor
markets. It revisits the labor-market effects of dual employment protection legislation as well …

Purpose This paper aims to study the type of short-time work (STW) schemes implemented
in Spain to preserve jobs and workers' incomes during the COVID-19 crisis and the …

The experiences of cross‐border workers (CBWs) and the difficulties they face during the
ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic have been neglected in previous research. CBWs experience …

This paper tests the hysteresis hypothesis in Spanish regional unemployment using
quarterly data over the 1976–2014 period using a large battery of univariate unit root tests …

The restrictions on duration and number of allowed renewals implied by fixed--term
contracts generate lower job security. In many countries, these contracts are particularly …

This chapter provides an overview of a growing literature on the emergence of dual labour
markets and their persistence in some EU countries, as well as the impact that dualism has …

Three features of real‐life reforms of dual employment protection legislation (EPL) systems
are particularly hard to study through the lens of standard labor‐market search models:(i) the …

In France, a proposal was made to substitute a unique labor contract with a degree of
employment protection increasing with tenure to the existing open‐end and fixed‐term …

This article analyses the consequences of the taxation of temporary jobs of short duration
recently introduced in several European countries to induce firms to create more open …

This paper studies the impact of product market competition on job security. I use differences
between types of labor contracts to measure job security. The effect of competition on the …