• Impacto del COVID-19 en el mercado de trabajo: un análisis de los colectivos vulnerables

    Llorente-Heras, R. (2020). «Impacto del COVID-19 en el mercado de trabajo: un análisis de los colectivos vulnerables. Documentos de Trabajo» (IAES, Instituto Universitario de Análisis Económico y Social), (2), 1-29. http://www.iaes.es/uploads/2/0/8/6/20860996/dt_02_20.pdf Resumen El presente documento de trabajo recoge una reflexión sobre cuál podríaser el impacto laboral provocado por la actual crisis sanitaria del COVID19. A través de las estadísticas de paro registrado, afiliaciones a la Seguridad Social y en base […]

  • The gender wage gap in hospitality

    Oliver, Xisco & Sard, Maria (2020). The gender wage gap in hospitality. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research. Online: First Published 4 Mar 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/1096348020909423 Resumen: This article analyzes the gender wage gap in the hospitality sector. First, it explores whether the gender wage gap is partly explained by the economic sector. Second, it measures how this gap changes across the wage distribution using quantile regression. Third, it decomposes the gender wage […]

  • The wage gap in Spain for temporary workers: the effects of the Great Recession

    Oliver, Xisco & Sard, Maria (2019). The wage gap in Spain for temporary workers: the effects of the Great Recession. International Journal of Manpower, 40 (7) 1319-1346. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-01-2019-0018 Resumen: AbstractPurpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the wage gap between temporary and permanent workers across the whole wage distribution, not just at the mean, and the evolution before and after the Great Recession on this gap in Spain.An extended Mincer-type […]

  • The Impact of the 2012 Spanish Labour Market Reform on Unemployment Inflows and Outflows: a Regression Discontinuity Analysis using Duration Models

    García-Pérez, J. I., & Domènech, J. M. (2019). The impact of the 2012 Spanish labour market reform on unemployment inflows and outflows: a regression discontinuity analysis using duration models. Hacienda Pública Española, 231(3), 157-200. https://doi.org/10.7866/hpe-rpe.19.4.5 Resumen: This paper studies the impact of the 2012 Spanish labour market reform on the probability of exiting and entering unemployment using a regression discontinuity approach based on duration models. The 2012 reform modified important […]

  • Cessation of Activity Benefit for Spanish Self-employed Workers: A Heterogeneous Impact Evaluation

    Moral-Arce, I., Martín-Román, J., & Martín-Román, Á. L. (2019). Cessation of Activity Benefit for Spanish Self-employed Workers: A Heterogeneous Impact Evaluation. Hacienda Pública Española, 231(4), 41-79. https://doi.org/10.7866/hpe-rpe.19.4.2 Resumen AbstractThe goal of this paper is to evaluate the effects of a public policy implemented through the Spanish Social Security system: the Cessation of Activity Benefit (CAB) for self-employed workers. Making use of the Continuous Sample of Working Lives (MCVL) and by […]

  • The Apprenticeship Contract: An Evaluation

    Iglesias, B. C., & Rodríguez, F. L. (2019). The Apprenticeship Contract: An Evaluation. Hacienda Pública Española, 231(4), 15-39. https://doi.org/10.7866/hpe-rpe.19.4.1 Resumen The apprenticeship contract is an instrument to fight against youth unemployment which has under-gone several reforms since the crisis in 2008. Despite its changes, the empirical evidence on its effects on the employability of young people is very limited. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to evaluate this type […]

  • The signalling role of over-education and qualifications mismatch

    Inmaculada García-Mainar y Víctor Montuenga Gómez (2019):»The signalling role of over-education and qualifications mismatch». Journal of Policy Modeling, 41(1), 99-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2019.02.015 Resumen: Over-education may arise from the voluntary decisions of individuals to acquire more qualifications than those required in the workplace, such that over-education may have a signaling role that allows workers to compensate for the lack of certain other skills, or to gain access to the labor market. This […]

  • Competition for university places and parental time investments: evidence from the United Kingdom

    Borra, Cristina y Almudena Sevilla (2019). Competition for university places and parental time investments: evidence from the United Kingdom. Economic Inquiry, 57(3), 1460-1479. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12761 Resumen: Across the industrialized world college‐educated parents invest more time in their children relative to noncollege‐educated parents. Yet, the reason for the education gradient in parental time investments is not well understood. Using 24‐hour diary surveys since the 1970s we document an inverse U‐shape in the […]

  • Self-Employment and the Okun’s Law

    Porras-Arena, M. S., & Martín-Román, Á. L. (2019). Self-employment and the Okun’s law. Economic Modelling, 77, 253-265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2018.09.006 Resumen: This research establishes a significant relationship between the share of self-employment in total employment and the Okun’s coefficient, which had been insufficiently addressed in the literature. We provide evidence on the determinants driving the differences in the unemployment–output relationship in Spanish regions and conclude that the differences in the share of […]

  • Employment in Spanish regions: cost-control or growth-enhancing policies?

    Bande, R., Karanassou, M., & Sala, H. (2019). Employment in Spanish regions: cost-control or growth-enhancing policies?. The Annals of Regional Science, 62(3), 601-635. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-019-00909-y   Resumen: The sets of relatively high and low unemployment regions have not changed in decades. Since generic labour market reforms have been fruitless on this respect, we explore whether such groups of regions react differently to key drivers of employment and wage setting. We find […]