Congregado, E., Gałecka-Burdziak, E., Golpe, A. A., & Pater, R. (2021). Unemployment invariance hypothesis and structural breaks in Poland. The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 24, e00198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeca.2021.e00198 Resumen: We study the long-run relationship between unemployment and the labour force participation rate while accounting for potential non-linearities. We explore two sources of non-linearities: structural breaks (as we allow the relationship to be time-varying) and differences by gender groups. We apply a […]

Raftopoulou, A., & Giannakopoulos, N. (2022). Unemployment and health: a panel event study. Applied Economics Letters, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2022.2044993   Resumen:  Adopting a panel event study framework, we estimate the effect of unemployment on health outcomes by exploiting the variation in the timing of entering unemployment using longitudinal data for Greece. We find that in the periods ahead of an unemployment event, health outcomes decline and unmet needs for medical care increase. […]

Martín-Román, Á. L. (2022). Beyond the added-worker and the discouraged-worker effects: the entitled-worker effect. Economic Modelling, 105812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105812   Resumen: This paper identifies and analyses a new effect related to the cyclical behaviour of labour supply: the Entitled-Worker Effect (EWE). This effect is different from the well-known Added-Worker Effect (AWE) and Discouraged-Worker Effect (DWE). The EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labour institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We develop […]

Giménez-Nadal, J. I., Molina, J. A., & Velilla, J. (2021). Trends in commuting time of European workers: A cross-country analysis. Transport Policy, 116, 327-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.12.016   Resumen:  This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European countries, during the last three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in commuting and the factors affecting commuting behavior. Using data from several waves of the European Working Conditions Survey, […]

Moreno-Mínguez, A., Martín-Román, Á. L., & Moral, A. (2022). Father parental leave use in Spain: the role of the female partner labour situation. Work, Employment and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170211062808   Resumen: This article presents novel empirical evidence of fathers’ parental leave usage by introducing a family dimension in Spain. To test this hypothesis, a bivariate probit estimation was used to analyse the effect of the mother’s labour force participation on the […]

Giménez-Nadal, J. I., Molina, J. A., & Velilla, J. (2021). Intergenerational correlation of self-employment in Western Europe. Economic Modelling, 108, 105741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2021.105741   Resumen: Existing research has focused on factors explaining why individuals become self-employed. Self-employment may represent a significant proportion of total employment in many countries, and the intergenerational correlation of self-employment has been used as an explanatory factor, although findings differ across countries, methods, and strategies. Using data […]

Morales, M., & Velilla, J. (2021). The effect of cultural environment on entrepreneurial decisions. International Journal of Social Economics. 48(9), 1309-1330 https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-02-2020-0113   Resumen: Purpose: This paper empirically examines whether the cultural environment plays a role in entrepreneurial decisions in Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. Design/methodology/approach: To explore this issue, we use data from the Adult Population Survey of 2010–2015 provided by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). To calculate the […]

Maynou, L., Ordóñez, J., & Silva, J. I. (2022). Convergence and determinants of young people not in employment, education or training: An European regional analysis. Economic Modelling, 105808. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105808   Resumen: In this paper, we study the convergence in the rates of young people Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) across the 274 European regions from 2000 to 2019. First, we apply the club convergence methodology and identify the […]

Martín‐Román, Á. L., Cuéllar‐Martín, J., & Moral, A. (2022). Natural and cyclical unemployment: A stochastic frontier decomposition and economic policy implications. Bulletin of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/boer.12335 Resumen: This work splits effective unemployment into two components: natural unemployment, and cyclical unemployment. For that purpose, an estimation of the stochastic cost frontier is performed. The study is focused on the 17 autonomous communities in Spain over the period 1982–2012. Results evidence greater […]

Pinillos-Franco, S., & Kawachi, I. (2021). Do individuals’ attitudes toward immigrants affect their own health? Analysis of 15 European countries. European Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckab212 Resumen: Background Hostility toward others is related to negative emotions, which is hypothesized to have negative health consequences. In this article, we sought to test the relationship between individuals’ attitudes toward immigrants and their self-rated health (SRH) across time in large dataset of 15 […]