La estabilidad de los nuevos contratos indefinidos durante la crisis económica

Abstract

This paper is focused on how the economic crisis has concerned the stable employment that began in our country during the last years of economic expansion, when the rate of growth of the open ended contracts was the highest. The objective is to assess if it can be observed differences between the types of those open ended contracts with different costs of entry and exit to employment as well as to measure the incidence on their duration depending on special causes of exits. The database used is the “Continuous Sample of Working life” linked with registered contracts in Spanish Public Employment Service. The results show an important volume of instability associated mainly with jobs of low productivity and dismissals.