Escudero-Castillo, I., Mato-Díaz, F., & Rodríguez-Alvarez, A. (2022). Psychological Well-Being during the COVID-19 Lockdown: Labour Market and Gender Implications. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-022-10113-4 Resumen:  In the Spring of 2020, a great number of countries introduced different restrictive measures in order to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. This article examines the labour market transitions of individuals brought about by some of those measures, and the effect of […]

Arendt, L., Gałecka-Burdziak, E., Núñez, F., Pater, R., & Usabiaga, C. (2023). Skills requirements across task-content groups in Poland: What online job offers tell us. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 187, 122245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122245 Resumen: Dynamic digitalisation has a profound impact on labour markets, leading to routinisation and job polarisation processes. Most studies on labour polarisation use employment data to track changes in labour demand and incomes across routine and non-routine […]

Serra, L., Silva, J. I., & Vall-Llosera, L. (2022). The unemployment effects of closing non-essential activities during the COVID-19 lockdown: The Spanish municipalities. Economic Analysis and Policy, 76, 806-819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.09.019 Resumen: We study the labour market impact of the confinement measures implemented in Spain to halt the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first quarter of 2020. We use data from 8108 municipalities to quantify the impact of the […]

La brecha de género en la carrera profesional en el Banco Central Europeo (BCE) Laura Hospido, Luc Laeven y Ana Lamo (*) (*) Basado en la publicación de los mismos autores: «The Gender Promotion Gap: Evidence from Central Banking,» The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 104(5), pages 981-996, 2022. Las opiniones y análisis son responsabilidad de los autores y no coinciden necesariamente con los del BCE, el Banco de España o el […]

Escudero-Castillo, I., Mato-Diaz, FJ. & Rodriguez-Alvarez, A. (2022). The Effect of Being Unemployed on Mental Health: The Spanish Case. The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 25(3), 79-89. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36128987/   Resumen: Background: The lack of work appeared to be linked to several symptoms related to poor mental health. Likewise, the reverse relationship, namely the influence of poor mental health on the risk of job loss, has also been analysed, i.e. […]

Giménez-Nadal, J. I., Molina, J. A., & Velilla, J. (2022). The daily mobility of older adults: Urban/rural differences in ten developed countries. The Annals of Regional Science, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-022-01192-0   Resumen: This paper explores the mobility patterns of older adults in ten countries, with a focus on the differences produced by urban environments in their non-work trips. Using detailed time use diaries from the Multinational Time Use Study for the […]

Pham, B. T., & Sala, H. (2022). Fiscal deficits and the socioeconomic consequences of rebalancing: Insights from a TVP-VAR with stochastic volatility. Australian Economic Papers. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8454.12286   Resumen: This article connects two salient economic features: (i) Fiscal shocks have asymmetric effects across business cycle phases (Gechert, Horn, & Paetz, 2019); (ii) the unemployment-output trade-off is time varying and may be unstable. The intertwined dynamic behaviour of fiscal deficit shocks and […]

Santero-Sánchez, R., & Castro Núñez, R. B. (2022). Calidad del empleo creado en las cooperativas y sociedades laborales en la recuperación económica 2013-2016. Análisis del caso de España. Revesco, 142, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.5209/reve.83723 Resumen La economía social se caracteriza por una serie de principios diferenciales, entre los que cabe destacar la valorización del ser humano y la generación de valor social por encima de los resultados económicos o financieros. En términos […]

Cristini, A., & Trivin, P. (2022). Close encounters during a pandemic: Social habits and inter-generational links in the first two waves of COVID-19. Economics & Human Biology, 47, 101180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101180   Resumen: Social habits are ingrained in a community and affect human behaviour. Have they played any role in the spread of the pandemic? We use high-frequency data for 220 regions in 15 European countries from March to December 2020 […]

Murillo-Huertas, I. P., Ramos, R., Simón, H., & Simón-Albert, R. (2022). Is multidimensional precarious employment higher for women?. Journal of Industrial Relations, 00221856221128873. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221856221128873   Resumen: This article examines the relative employment situation of female employees from a novel perspective based on the construction of multidimensional indicators of employment precariousness that allow examining its scale and nature. The evidence obtained for Spain shows that both the intensity and incidence of […]