Commuting time and sickness absence of US workers
Gimenez-Nadal, J. I., Molina, J. A., & Velilla, J. (2022). Commuting time and sickness absence of US workers. Empirica, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10663-022-09534-z Resumen: This paper analyzes the relationship between commuting time and days of sickness absence of US workers. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the years 2011 to 2017, we find that a 1% increase in [...]
The wealth-consumption channel: Evidence from a panel of Spanish households
Trivin, P. (2021). The wealth-consumption channel: Evidence from a panel of Spanish households. Review of Economics of the Household, 1-52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-021-09586-3 Resumen: In this paper, we use a panel of Spanish households spanning the period 2002–2011 to study the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) out of wealth. The wealth effect is identified by exploiting within-household variations in a period of [...]
The role of non-contributory pensions on internal mobility in Spain
Amuedo-Dorantes, C., & Borra, C. (2021). The role of non-contributory pensions on internal mobility in Spain. Labour Economics, 70, 101980. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2021.101980 Resumen: Spain is one of the Southern European nations characterized by very low inter-provincial mobility rates despite large inter-regional unemployment rate differences. We examine whether non-contributory pensions – an increasingly important component of many welfare systems, have curtailed the [...]
Unemployment invariance hypothesis and structural breaks in Poland.
Congregado, E., Gałecka-Burdziak, E., Golpe, A. A., & Pater, R. (2021). Unemployment invariance hypothesis and structural breaks in Poland. The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 24, e00198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeca.2021.e00198 Resumen: We study the long-run relationship between unemployment and the labour force participation rate while accounting for potential non-linearities. We explore two sources of non-linearities: structural breaks (as we allow the relationship to [...]
Unemployment and health: a panel event study
Raftopoulou, A., & Giannakopoulos, N. (2022). Unemployment and health: a panel event study. Applied Economics Letters, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2022.2044993 Resumen: Adopting a panel event study framework, we estimate the effect of unemployment on health outcomes by exploiting the variation in the timing of entering unemployment using longitudinal data for Greece. We find that in the periods ahead of an unemployment event, [...]
Beyond the added-worker and the discouraged-worker effects: the entitled-worker effect
Martín-Román, Á. L. (2022). Beyond the added-worker and the discouraged-worker effects: the entitled-worker effect. Economic Modelling, 105812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105812 Resumen: This paper identifies and analyses a new effect related to the cyclical behaviour of labour supply: the Entitled-Worker Effect (EWE). This effect is different from the well-known Added-Worker Effect (AWE) and Discouraged-Worker Effect (DWE). The EWE is a consequence of one of the [...]
