Escudero-Castillo, I., Mato Díaz, F. J., & Rodriguez-Alvarez, A. (2022). Effects of precarious work on mental health: evidence from Spain. Applied Economics, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2022.2098241 Resumen: Given that a relationship has been established between employment status and psychological well-being, the deepening segmentation of the Spanish labour market may be putting the mental health of part of the population at risk. However, the relationship between work and well-being could be influenced by […]

Arranz, J. M., & García-Serrano, C. (2022). La evaluación del impacto de las políticas públicas: el caso de las políticas del mercado de trabajo. Papeles de Economía Española, (172), 139-171. https://www.funcas.es/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/PEE_172_Jos%C3%A9-M.-ARRANZ.pdf Resumen: El objetivo de este artículo es doble. Por un lado, se revisan algunos estudios que han utilizado los métodos disponibles para evaluar el impacto de las políticas públicas en el mercado de trabajo en España. Por otro lado, […]

Chiappori, P.-A., Gimenez-Nadal, J.I., Molina, J.A. and J. Velilla (2022). Household labor supply: Collective evidence in developed countries. In Handbook in Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (K.F. Zimmermann, Ed.). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_271-1 Resumen: This chapter reviews applied research on household collective labor supply, to show some empirical results in developed countries. The collective model of household labor supply is summarized, in which spouses allocate their resources so that they […]

How does intrahousehold bargaining power impact labor supply? European cross-country evidence Ignacio Belloc, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla Full text: https://ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/glodps/1132.html This paper was awarded the Luis Toharia grant for young researchers in labour economics (V edition)   The study of the family was first addressed many years ago (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1, Part 2, according to Browning et al., 2014). However, it was as a result of the work of […]

Título: Three empirical essays on daily residence-work mobility and labor market areas  Autor: Raquel Simón Albert  Directores: José Manuel Casado e Hipólito Simón  Universidad: Universidad de Alicante  Fecha de defensa: 24 de mayo de 2022  Calificación: Sobresaliente Cum Laude  Resumen:  In view of the economic and social transcendence of a region’s labour market on its competitiveness, the quality of life of its citizens, its economic evolution or its level of […]

“The effect of a university degree in English on international labor mobility” by Samuel Nocito Published in Labour Economics, Volume 68, January 2021, 101943  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101943 This paper was awarded the Lluís Fina Award (XI edition) Paper Summary: European Union priorities for 2020 include fostering education and labor mobility to stimulate youth employment at home and abroad (European Commission, 2011). Yet, while the link between studying abroad and international labor mobility is widely recognized (Oosterbeek and […]

Pinillos-Franco, S., & Kawachi, I. (2022). Hostile attitudes toward immigrants and refugees are associated with poor self-rated health. Analysis of 21 European countries. Social Science & Medicine, 301, 114969. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114969 Resumen: BackgroundPrevious studies found that individuals who harbor hostile attitudes toward immigrants & refugees tend to vote for far right nationalist parties, and that the same individuals also tend to report worse health status. We sought to test these associations […]

Gimenez-Nadal, J. I., Molina, J. A., & Velilla, J. (2022). Commuting time and sickness absence of US workers. Empirica, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10663-022-09534-z Resumen: This paper analyzes the relationship between commuting time and days of sickness absence of US workers. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the years 2011 to 2017, we find that a 1% increase in the daily commute of workers is associated with an increase […]

Trivin, P. (2021). The wealth-consumption channel: Evidence from a panel of Spanish households. Review of Economics of the Household, 1-52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-021-09586-3 Resumen: In this paper, we use a panel of Spanish households spanning the period 2002–2011 to study the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) out of wealth. The wealth effect is identified by exploiting within-household variations in a period of relatively large volatility in asset prices. We estimate a MPC […]

Amuedo-Dorantes, C., & Borra, C. (2021). The role of non-contributory pensions on internal mobility in Spain. Labour Economics, 70, 101980. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2021.101980 Resumen: Spain is one of the Southern European nations characterized by very low inter-provincial mobility rates despite large inter-regional unemployment rate differences. We examine whether non-contributory pensions – an increasingly important component of many welfare systems, have curtailed the internal migration of younger cohorts over the past three decades. […]