Employment in Spanish regions: cost-control or growth-enhancing policies?
Bande, R., Karanassou, M., & Sala, H. (2019). Employment in Spanish regions: cost-control or growth-enhancing policies?. The Annals of Regional Science, 62(3), 601-635. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-019-00909-y Resumen: The sets of relatively high and low unemployment regions have not changed in decades. Since generic labour market reforms have been fruitless on this respect, we explore whether such groups of regions react differently [...]
Education, age and skills: An analysis using PIAAC data
Calero, J., Murillo Huertas, I. P., & Raymond Bara, J. L. (2019). Education, age and skills: An analysis using PIAAC data. European Journal of Education, 54(1), 72-92. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12318 Resumen The main aim of this article is to analyse the change of adult skills, as captured by cognitive skills assessed in PIAAC, across age cohorts, taking into account that the quality [...]
Lo que se oculta tras los datos de empleo
Carlos García Serrano Publicado en El Pais, 6 de enero de 2020 Ya conocen las noticias sobre afiliación, contratos y paro registrado. Ahora les contaré algunas verdades que se ocultan tras ellas. Quizás la más relevante es que la línea entre la ocupación y el paro se ha ido haciendo más débil para amplios segmentos del mercado laboral, que o [...]
The commuting behaviour of self‐employed workers: Evidence for Spain
Juan Francisco Albert, Jose M. Casado-Díaz e Hipólito Simón. Papers in Regional Science, 98(6), 2455-2477. https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12469 Resumen: The aim of the paper is to examine the commuting behaviour of self‐employed workers in Spain as well as its relationship with satisfaction with jobs and housing. According to our results although conventional estimations indicate that commuting trips are shorter among the self‐employed, [...]
Essays on job mobility
Resumen: Esta tesis doctoral estudia cómo las instituciones del mercado laboral, las relaciones sociales en el mercado, o la estructura de la propiedad de las empresas afectan la movilidad laboral de trabajadores y empresas. El primer capítulo investiga el papel de la indemnización por despido en las decisiones de los trabajadores de abandonar voluntariamente su empresa. Utilizando la reforma laboral [...]
The changing use of short-time work schemes: Evidence from two recessions
Jose M. Arranz, Carlos García-Serrano y Virgina Hernanz. European Journal of Industrial Relations 25(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680117753313 Resumen: We explore differences in resort to short-time work schemes between the recessions in the early 1990s and the late 2000s in Spain and Italy and explore how far these are associated with differences in employees’ personal and job-related characteristics. We use individual data [...]
