Acosta-Ballesteros, J., Osorno-Del Rosal, M. &  Rodríguez-Rodríguez, O.M.: Gender differences in the quality of the school-to-work transition in Spain, Applied Economics, 49 ( 57). Abstrac This article analyses to what extent gender affects the quality of the school-to-work transition in Spain, paying special attention to workers’ educational attainment. We estimate a four-equation system that explains the main obstacles young people face in their insertion process: part-time work, overeducation, fixed-term contracts […]

Referencia Legazpe, N. (2016): Decisiones de formación de la pareja y maternidad en las mujeres españolas, Revista de Economía Aplicada, 72 (XXIV), 23-45. Resumen El objetivo del presente trabajo de investigación es analizar los factores que influyen en la decisión de la primera convivencia en pareja y, posteriormente, los factores que determinan la probabilidad de que una mujer tenga su primer, segundo o tercer hijo, para un conjunto de mujeres […]

Referencia: Blázquez, M., Herrarte, A. y Sáez, F. (2017): Determinants of occupational matching: An empirical analysis based on administrative records, Revista de Economía Aplicada, 73 (XXV), 1-35. Abstract Using data from administrative records of public employment offices, we study the main factors determining occupational matching, measured by the relationship between the occupation demanded by jobseekers on their job applications and the corresponding final occupation in the job they find. The […]

Reproducimos a continuación la referencia al artículo ‘Should the rich be taxed more? The fiscal inequality coefficient’, de John Hatgioannides, Marika Karanassou y Hector Sala, publicada el 27 de agosto de 2017 por el rotativo The Guardian : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/aug/27/should-the-rich-be-taxed-more-a-new-paper-shows-unequivocally-yes   Should the rich be taxed more? A new paper shows unequivocally yes Larry Elliot Denis Healey never actually said he intended to squeeze the rich until the pips squeaked. The man who […]

Mateos Romero, L., Murillo Huertas, I.P. y Salinas Jiménez, M.M. (2017): Wage effects of cognitive skills and educational mismatch in Europe, Journal of Policy Modeling, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2017.08.001 Abstract This paper analyzes the returns to education and educational mismatch in thirteen European countries taking account not only of years of education but also of cognitive skills actually acquired by workers. Using the PIAAC database, our results suggest that both years of education […]

  Agudelo, S. y Sala, H. (2017): Wage rigidities in Colombia: Measurement, causes, and policy implications, Journal of Policy Modeling, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2017.04.004   Abstract   This paper evaluates the extent of wage rigidities in Colombia over a period, 2002–2014, in which the fall in unemployment was relatively slow with respect to sustained economic growth. Following Holden and Wulfsberg (2009), we compute a measure of downward real wage rigidity (DRWR) of 12.09%, […]

Consumption in the Shadow of Unemployment, por Rodolfo Campos e Iliana Reggio El presente trabajo, publicado en la revista Labour Economics, ha resultado ganador de la VIII Edición del Premio Lluís Fina.   Resumen no técnico En general, una recesión está asociada a una caída del consumo agregado, que representa entre la mitad y dos tercios del PIB, dependiendo del país que se mire. En una recesión, un conjunto de […]

Este texto ha sido publicado previamente en Politikon.   La calidad del profesorado y la adquisición de competencias de los alumnos Jorge Calero y Oriol Escardíbul La calidad del profesorado es un concepto que puede ser definido de muchos modos. El efecto del profesorado sobre los alumnos es complejo y se produce sobre aspectos cognitivos (qué conocimientos aprenden los alumnos) y no cognitivos (qué actitudes y valores son transmitidos). En nuestro estudio nos centramos en […]

Murillo Huertas, I.P., Ramos, R. and Simón, H. (2017): Regional differences in the gender wage gap in Spain, Social Indicators Research, DOI 10.1007/s11205-016-1461-8. Abstract This study examines regional differences in the gender wage gap in Spain using matched employer–employee microdata, two different econometric decomposition methods and panel data techniques. Our findings suggest that Spain shows a significant regional heterogeneity in the size of the raw gap, roughly comparable to cross-country […]

Cueto, B. y Malo, M.Á. (2016): Do partial disability pensions close the earnings gap?, Hacienda Pública Española-Review of Public Economics, 216, 103-125. Abstract In this article, we estimate the total earnings losses of male workers with a partial disability, i.e., they are able to work at a different occupation after the disability’s onset. We use a Spanish administrative dataset (Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales) from a specific partial disability pension […]