Casado-Díaz, J. M., Simón-Albert, R., & Simón, H. (2021). Reassessing the commuting penalty for immigrants: new evidence from Spain. Transportation, 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-021-10204-5 Resumen:  This article examines the differences in commuting length between native and immigrant employees in Spain, a relevant issue since immigrants’ longer commuting times may, among other factors, reflect an imperfect spatial matching of their labour supply and demand with negative implications for their relative labour outcomes and their […]

Santero, R., Castro, R.B. y Castaño, M. (2020): Techo de cristal y planes de igualdad: Estudio de casos en cadenas hoteleras españolas, Revista del Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social, 146, 15-45. Resumen:  Decent work and gender equality is among the key challenges in the international agenda, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) launched by the United Nations in its agenda 2030. In particular, SDG 5 deals explicitly with gender […]

Segovia-Pérez, M., Castro Núñez, R.B., Santero Sánchez, R., Laguna Sánchez, P. (2020): Being a woman in an ICT job: an analysis of the gender pay gap and discrimination in Spain, New Technology, Work and Employment, 2020, 35(1), pp. 20–39. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12145 Resumen:  Despite policy initiatives aimed at promoting female access to jobs, the information and communication technology (ICT) professions have traditionally been largely monopolised by men. Segregation, gendered stereotypes and environmental factors have a clear impact on educational and […]

Castro Núñez, R.B., Martín Barroso, V., Santero Sánchez, R.(2020): Wage Cost-Reducing Policies and Employment Stability for People With Disabilities in the Spanish Labor Market, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2020, 30(4), pp. 202–212. https://doi.org/10.1177/1044207319848070 Resumen:  The strategies for integrating people with disabilities into the labor market have evolved toward a social approach, in which the objective is the integration with stable and decent jobs. This article analyzes how persons with disabilities enter the ordinary labor market […]

Castro Núñez, R.B., Bandeira, P., Santero-Sánchez, R. (2020): The social economy, gender equality at work and the 2030 agenda: Theory and evidence from Spain, Sustainability, 2020, 12(12). https://doi.org/10.3390/su12125192 Resumen:  The improvement in women’s labor conditions and the elimination of segregation and other forms of direct or indirect discrimination have become one of the major challenges of the international political agenda, and as so have been included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) launched by the UN in […]

Cámara, A., Martínez, Mª.I., Santero-Sánchez, R. (2020): Macroeconomic cost of excluding persons with disabilities from the workforce in Spain, IZA Journal of Labor Policy,10(1). https://doi.org/10.2478/izajolp-2020-0015 Resumen: The article analyzes and deals with the problems associated to exclusion of persons with disabilities from the workforce based on the impact it has in the context of economic and social dimensions, considering the fact that it results in high cost because of such […]

Dueñas-Fernández, D., & Llorente-Heras, R. (2021). La segregación laboral en tiempos de crisis: diferencias europeas. Revista de Economía Mundial/Journal of World Economy, (57), 87-118. http://dx.doi.org/10.33776/rem.v0i57.4804 Resumen: Dentro de la UE, la crisis de 2008 provocó importantes cambios laborales en materia de género. Una de las pautas más importantes y llamativas ha sido la existencia de una disminución en la segregación laboral. En el presente artículo abordamos el estudio de la […]

Álvarez de Toledo, P., Núñez, F., & Usabiaga, C. (2020). Matching in segmented labor markets: An analytical proposal based on high-dimensional contingency tables. Economic Modelling, 93, 175-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2020.07.019 Resumen:  The Spanish economy has a very problematic labor market characterized by high and persistent levels of unemployment, elevated long-term unemployment, strong segmentation and low regional mobility, among other drawbacks. This paper uses labor matching data from a large database of administrative microdata (Continuous […]

Moral, A., Rosales, V., & Martín-Román, Á. (2021). Professional vs. non-professional labour judges: their impact on the quality of judicial decisions. International Review of Law and Economics, 65, 105948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2020.105948 Resumen:  This paper proposes an empirical analysis to study if the quality of judicial decisions is influenced by the number and type of judges working in the court. A set of econometric models will be estimated in order to explain […]

Almeida, A., Golpe, A., & Justo, R. (2021). From hot to cold: A spatial analysis of self‐employment in the United States. Papers in Regional Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12597 Resumen:  Self‐employment is a geographical phenomenon influenced by national and regional contexts. However, the study of both contexts combined is scarce in the literature on the formation of regional clusters. Using panel data from the USA for 1998‐2018, we perform different techniques to study […]