Firm responses to employment subsidies A regression discontinuity approach to the 2012 Spanish labour market reform. 1970 / October 2016
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Otros documentos de la autoría: European Central Bank; Gradeva, Katerina; Weber, Sebastian; Gamberoni, Elisa
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Firm responses to employment subsidies A regression discontinuity approach to the 2012 Spanish labour market reform. 1970 / October 2016DOI
10.2866/559447Fecha de Publicación
2016-11-09Resumen
This study focuses on the employment effect of a hiring subsidy available to firms with less than 50 employees, granted in the context of the 2012 Spanish labour market reform. Exploiting the arbitrary firm size ... [+]
This study focuses on the employment effect of a hiring subsidy available to firms with less than 50 employees, granted in the context of the 2012 Spanish labour market reform. Exploiting the arbitrary firm size threshold using regression discontinuity design, estimates show on average 2 percentage points higher employment growth for firms that became eligible for the scheme. However, tests and complementary regressions suggest that the higher employment growth for smaller firms in 2013 is driven by a 2010 reform, which imposes more stringent reporting requirements on larger firms. Accounting for this using difference-in-discontinuity regressions, we fail to find any significant t effect of the subsidy on increasing employment of eligible firms. While our study suggests several pitfalls arising from size-contingent regulations, more data are needed to test for beneficial long-term effects from the hiring subsidy in addressing duality of the Spanish labour market. [-]
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Acceso al empleo | Job Access | Ayuda a los necesitados | Aid to disadvantaged groups | Ayuda al empleo | Employment Aid | Econometría | Econometrics | España | Spain | Lucha contra el paro | Fight against unemployment | Mercado Laboral | Labour Market | Microeconomía | Microeconomics | Pequeña y Mediana Empresa | Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises | Política de empleo | Employment Policy | Política de empleo de la UE | EU employment policy | Política Fiscal | Fiscal Policy
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978-92-899-2218-0Tipo de documento
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