TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bentolila, Samuel
AU  - Dolado, Juan J.
AU  - Jimeno, Juan F.
        TI  - Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience
        PY  - 2011/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6186
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6186
        AB  - This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter the fundamental features of labor market institutions. While the Great Recession and the start of the sovereign debt crisis triggered two labor reforms, the political economy equilibrium has not allowed them to be transformational enough.
        KW  - Great Recession
KW  - labor market reform
KW  - dualism
KW  - temporary contracts
KW  - political economy
        ER  -