Artículos destacados

Usabiaga, C., Núñez, F., Arendt, L., Gałecka-Burdziak, E., & Pater, R. (2022). Skill requirements and labour polarisation: An association analysis based on Polish online job offers. Economic Modelling, 115, 105963. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105963 Resumen:  This paper uses the methodological scheme of contingency tables to explore polarisation in the Polish labour market. We use a large database of online job offers published on [...]

Giménez-Nadal, J. I., Molina, J. A., & Velilla, J. (2022). Occupational sorting and the transmission of self-employment between generations. Applied Economics Letters, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2022.2074354 Resumen: Existing research has focused on factors explaining self-employment decisions, and the intergenerational transmission of self-employment has been posited as one explanatory factor. However, findings differ across countries, and the channels for such transmission remain unclear. [...]

García-Pérez, C., Prieto, M., Seva, J., Simon, H., & Simón-Albert, R. (2022). A multidimensional operationalization of precarious employment with a counting approach: evidence from Spain. Applied Economics, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2022.2091744 Resumen: The article proposes a novel multidimensional operationalization of precarious employment using the Alkire-Foster dual threshold counting approach methodology. The proposal is made in a context in which, although precarious employment [...]

Del Rey, E., Naval, J., & Silva, J. I. (2022). Hours and wages: A bargaining approach. Economics Letters, 110652. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110652 Resumen: In a recent paper, Bick et al. (2022) show the presence of a hump-shaped relationship between hours and hourly wages with a maximum around 50 h worked. We show that a model with fixed labor costs where workers and firms bargain [...]

Escudero-Castillo, I., Mato Díaz, F. J., & Rodriguez-Alvarez, A. (2022). Effects of precarious work on mental health: evidence from Spain. Applied Economics, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2022.2098241 Resumen: Given that a relationship has been established between employment status and psychological well-being, the deepening segmentation of the Spanish labour market may be putting the mental health of part of the population at risk. However, [...]

Arranz, J. M., & García-Serrano, C. (2022). La evaluación del impacto de las políticas públicas: el caso de las políticas del mercado de trabajo. Papeles de Economía Española, (172), 139-171. https://www.funcas.es/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/PEE_172_Jos%C3%A9-M.-ARRANZ.pdf Resumen: El objetivo de este artículo es doble. Por un lado, se revisan algunos estudios que han utilizado los métodos disponibles para evaluar el impacto de las políticas públicas [...]