Artículos destacados

Marcén, M., & Morales, M. (2021). Culture and the cross-country differences in the gender commuting gap. Journal of Transport Geography, 96, 103184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103184   Resumen:  This paper explores the role of the gender equality culture in cross-country gender commuting gap differences. To avoid inter-relationships between culture, institutions, and economic conditions in a simple cross-country analysis, we adopt the epidemiological approach. We merge [...]

Ramos, R.; Sanromá, E.; Simón, H. (2021), Collective bargaining levels, employment and wage inequality in Spain, Journal of Policy Modeling, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2021.09.006 Resumen: After the increase in inequalities following the Great Recession, studies on wage bargaining systems have increasingly focused on wage inequality. This research examines wage inequality associated with collective bargaining levels in Spain, based on matched employer–employee microdata and quantile regression methods. These methods are applied [...]

López-Tamayo, J.; Melguizo, C.; Ramos, R. (2021), Minimum wages, youth employment and spatial spillovers: New evidence for Spain, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-021-09428-w Resumen: The effect of minimum wages increases on youth employment level has been extensively analysed, but recent contributions have highlighted the potential bias in these studies due to neglected spatial autocorrelation in the considered relationship. This [...]

Bellido, H., Marcén, M., and Morales, M (2021). Spaniards in the wider world: the role of education in the choice of destination country. IZA Journal of Development and Migration, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.2478/izajodm-2021-0006 Resumen:  This paper examines the relationship between the education level of Spanish emigrants and their destination country. Since Spanish emigrants were born under the same laws and insti-tutions, the [...]

Marcén, M., & Morales, M. (2021). The intensity of COVID-19 Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and labor market outcomes in the public sector.  Journal of Regional Science, 61, 775-798. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12535 Resumen: This paper examines whether the intensity of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has differentially impacted the public sector labor market outcomes. This extends the analysis of the [...]