Del Rey, E., Kyriacou, A., & Silva, J. I. (2020). Maternity leave and female labor force participation: evidence from 159 countries. Journal of Population Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-020-00806-1 Resumen: In this paper, we account for the direct and indirect effects of maternity leave entitlements on female labor force participation. We first explore theoretically the impact of maternity leave duration on female labor supply in the presence of fertility decisions. We assume that […]

José María Arranz, Carlos García Serrano y Virginia Hernanz: “Short-time work and employment stability: Evidence from a policy change”.  British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 56, nº 1, pp. 189-222 (2019). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12250 .   Abstract: This paper investigates whether short-time work (STW) programmes achieve their stated goal of being devices intended to preserve jobs and keep workers employed in times of crisis. Our identification strategy exploits a change in the financial incentives […]

Tomi Kyyrä, José María Arranz y Carlos García Serrano:  “Does subsidized part-time employment help unemployed workers to find full-time employment?”. Labour Economics, vol. 56, pp. 68-93 (2019). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2018.12.001 . Abstract: We study whether part-time work acts as a bridge towards full-time work for unemployed workers in Spain. We consider a time period when firms were encouraged to create part-time jobs by cutting employers’ social security contributions. We follow the timing-of-event approach […]

Resumen Esta tesis estudia dos temas muy relevantes para el mercado de trabajo: (i) la movilidad de los trabajadores, y (ii) la eficiencia de los procesos de selección. Relacionado con la movilidad de los trabajadores, el primer capítulo investiga el efecto de las prestaciones por desempleo en la movilidadgeográfica de los trabajadores en paro. La identificación se basa en una inesperada reducción de 10 puntos porcentuales en las prestaciones por […]

García-Mainar, I., & Montuenga, V. M. (2020). Occupational Prestige and Fathers’ Influence on Sons and Daughters. Journal of Family and Economic Issues. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10834-020-09677-w Abstract This article aims to provide insights into the intergenerational social mobility of Spanish workers, comparing the occupational prestige of sons and daughters to that of their fathers when the offspring were aged sixteen. We used a pooled-sample for the years 2007–2010, from a nationally representative data base, […]

Calero, J., Murillo Huertas, I. P., & Raymond, J. L. (2020). Efficiency in the transformation of schooling into competences: A cross‐country analysis using PIAAC data. Bulletin of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/boer.12249 Abstract This study (i) compares the competence levels of the adult population in a set of OECD countries; (ii) assesses the comparative efficiency with which the education system in each country transforms schooling into competences, distinguishing by educational level, and […]

García-Mainar, I., & Montuenga-Gómez, V. M. (2020). Over-Qualification and the Dimensions of Job Satisfaction. Social Indicators Research, 147(2), 591-620. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-019-02167-z Resumen: The spread of over-qualification is a consequence of individuals having acquired more credentials than required at the workplace. In some cases, it may be that this mismatch plays a role in allowing workers to compensate for the lack of some other skills, to escape from unemployment, or to achieve […]

Congregado, Emilio, Galecka-Burdziak, Ewa, Golpe, A. y Pater, Robert (2020):»Asymmetry and Non-linearity in Discouraged and Added Worker Effects.» Eastern European Economics 58.3 (2020): 221-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/00128775.2019.1710215«   Resumen: We examine whether discouraged and added worker effects are state-dependent, business cycle phase-dependent, or change stochastically. We use quarterly LFS data for the 1995–2016 period for Poland. Labor force participation rate behaves non-linearly. The change is rapid and connected to the stable value […]

Inés Murillo-Huertas, Raúl Ramos and Hipólito Simón: « Revisiting interregional wage differentials: New evidence from Spain with matched employer‐employee data. Journal of Regional Science, 60(2), 296-347. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12459   Abstract This article examines wage differences across Spain’s NUTS‐2 regions along the entire wage distribution based on matched employer‐employee microdata from 2006 to 2014. Unlike previous related studies, we properly control for differences in regional purchasing power parities, which are very large […]

Luis Ayala, Javier Martín-Román and Juan Vicente: The contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality: A counterfactual analysis for OECD countries. Papers in Regional Science. 99(3), 447-477. https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12503 Abstract This paper provides recent evidence on the contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality and more specifically accounts for the impact of the changes in the territorial distribution of the population on the recent dynamics of income inequality. We use LIS […]