Capperalli, L. and Di Paolo, A. (2018): Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reform, Economics of Education Review, 64, 90-101. Abstract We estimate the wage effects of bilingual education for the first time using a reform that introduced bilingualism in Catalan schools. Variation across years of schooling and birth cohorts provides identification. We find substantial effects of bilingual education, which increases baseline returns to education by about 20%. […]

La discriminación salarial de las personas con discapacidad: Algunos resultados útiles por Malo en 03/03/2018 en DESIGUALDAD, DIFERENCIAS POR SEXO, DISCAPACIDAD, DISCRIMINACIÓN, EDUCACIÓN, EMPLEO, FORMACIÓN, SALARIOS [Esta entrada reproduce la publicada por el autor en el blog de Funcas y resume los principales argumentos de un artículo del autor en el número 26 de Panorama Social, dedicado a la situación laboral y social de las personas con discapacidad] Posiblemente, el mayor problema laboral de las personas con discapacidad es el del propio acceso al mercado de […]

Bonhomme, S. and Hospido, L. (2017): The Cycle of Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Spanish Social Security Data, The Economic Journal, 127, 1244-1278    Abstract We use detailed information from social security records to document the evolution of male earnings inequality and employment in Spain from 1988 to 2010. We find that inequality was strongly countercyclical: it increased around the 1993 recession, experienced a substantial decrease during the 1997–2007 expansion and […]

Davia, M. Á. and Legazpe, N. (2017): Understanding intergenerational transmission of deprivation in Spain: Education and marital sorting, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 52, 1-14   Abstract This paper contributes to the literature on intergenerational transmission of deprivation in Spain by exploring how this phenomenon is shaped by education and marital homogamy. To that aim, a set of univariate, bivariate and trivariate ordered probit models are estimated on a […]

  SPECIAL ISSUE 2018   REVISTA DE ECONOMÍA LABORAL Evolution of labour markets in Latin America after the global economic crisis   “Call for papers”     In a new stage of Revista de Economía Laboral, the journal publishes annually a special issue. After the second special issue focused on the analysis of the collective bargaining system and the third special issue about labour market and women (in press), the […]

  NÚMERO MONOGRÁFICO 2019   SEGUNDA ETAPA DE LA REVISTA DE ECONOMÍA LABORAL Mercado de Trabajo y Nuevas Tecnologías: Robotización, digitalización y GIG-Economía         Monográfico dedicado MERCADO DE TRABAJO Y NUEVAS TECNOLOGÍAS: ROBOTIZACIÓN, DIGITALIZACIÓN Y GIG-ECONOMÍA magníficamente coordinado por nuestra compañera María Ángeles Davia, a quien agradecemos el esfuerzo y trabajo realizado. Podéis acceder a él en nuestra página web http://www.aeet-rel.es/index.php/rel. En Tribuna Abierta podréis encontrar un […]

García-Mainar, I., Green, C.P. and Navarro-Paniagua, M. (2018): The effect of permanent employment on absenteeism: Evidence from labor reform in Spain, ILR Review, 71 (2), 525-549.  Abstract Restrictive employment protection legislation has been highlighted as a key reason for lower labor productivity in Europe compared to the United States. Evidence in the literature has shown robust effects of employment protection on effort, though the effects appear too small to generate […]

Blázquez, M., Herrarte, A. and Llorente-Heras, R. (2018): Competencies, occupational status and earnings among European university graduates, Economics of Education Review, 62, 16-34. Abstract While the effect of education and experience on labour market outcomes has been widely studied, the literature that analyses the influence of human capital competencies (talents, skills, and capabilities) is still relatively scarce. Using cross-sectional data from the REFLEX Project, we investigate the effect of personal […]

Sobre las pensiones y la vida laboral Raúl Ramos   En un contexto en que el número de pensionistas crece un mes tras otro, ya se acerca a los 6 millones de jubilados para el conjunto del estado, cualquier declaración política sobre este tema tiene un claro impacto sobre la opinión pública y genera un debate importante sobre quien se beneficiará y quien saldrá perjudicado por la nueva reforma. La […]

Moral, A. and Martín Román, Á. (2017): A methodologycal proposal to evaluate the cost of duration moral hazard in workplace accident insuarance, The European Journal of Health Economics, 18 (9), 1181-1198. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-017-0878-6 Abstract The cost of duration moral hazard in workplace accident insurance has been amply explored by North-American scholars. Given the current context of financial constraints in public accounts, and particularly in the Social Security system, we feel that […]