TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Pawel, Adrjan
AU  - Jessen, Jonas
AU  - Lanzón, Carlos Victoria
        TI  - Restricting Temporary Contracts Increases Firm-Provided Training: Evidence from Spain
        PY  - 2026/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18539
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18539
        AB  - We examine whether restricting temporary contracts increases firms' investment in worker training, exploiting Spain’s 2022 labour market reform. Using 3.1 million online job postings from 2018 to 2024, we implement a difference-in-differences design that leverages pre-reform variation in reliance on temporary contracts across occupations. More exposed occupations shifted toward permanent hiring and increased advertised training relative to less exposed occupations. Training rose by 4.3 percentage points, fully closing the pre-reform gap by 2024. These results provide evidence that longer expected employment duration increases firms' investment in training, identifying a channel through which labour market regulation can shape human capital formation.
        KW  - temporary employment
KW  - on-the-job training
KW  - human capital investment
KW  - employment contracts
        ER  -