• Education, age and skills: An analysis using PIAAC data

    Calero, J., Murillo Huertas, I. P., & Raymond Bara, J. L. (2019). Education, age and skills: An analysis using PIAAC data. European Journal of Education, 54(1), 72-92. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12318 Resumen The main aim of this article is to analyse the change of adult skills, as captured by cognitive skills assessed in PIAAC, across age cohorts, taking into account that the quality of schooling may change from one cohort to another. We […]

  • The commuting behaviour of self‐employed workers: Evidence for Spain

    Juan Francisco Albert, Jose M. Casado-Díaz e Hipólito Simón. Papers in Regional Science, 98(6), 2455-2477. https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12469 Resumen: The aim of the paper is to examine the commuting behaviour of self‐employed workers in Spain as well as its relationship with satisfaction with jobs and housing. According to our results although conventional estimations indicate that commuting trips are shorter among the self‐employed, the differences with employees vanish when the potential endogeneity of […]

  • Essays on job mobility

    Resumen: Esta tesis doctoral estudia cómo las instituciones del mercado laboral, las relaciones sociales en el mercado, o la estructura de la propiedad de las empresas afectan la movilidad laboral de trabajadores y empresas. El primer capítulo investiga el papel de la indemnización por despido en las decisiones de los trabajadores de abandonar voluntariamente su empresa. Utilizando la reforma laboral de 2012 en España, que modificó la legislación sobre la […]

  • The changing use of short-time work schemes: Evidence from two recessions

    Jose M. Arranz, Carlos García-Serrano y Virgina Hernanz. European Journal of Industrial Relations 25(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680117753313 Resumen: We explore differences in resort to short-time work schemes between the recessions in the early 1990s and the late 2000s in Spain and Italy and explore how far these are associated with differences in employees’ personal and job-related characteristics. We use individual data from national Labour Force Surveys and perform a multivariate detailed […]

  • The short-run relationship between inequality and growth: evidence from OECD regions during the Great Recession

    Vicente Royuela, Paolo Veneri y Raúl Ramos. Regional Studies, 52 (4), 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2018.1476752 Resumen: This paper provides evidence on the relationship between income inequality and economic growth in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) regions during the decade 2003–13. It combines household survey data and macroeconomic databases, covering over 200 comparable regions in 15 OECD countries. The econometric results, based on two alternative sets of instruments, highlight a general […]

  • Women’s Employment and Childcare Choices in Spain Through The Great Recession

    Legazpe Moraleja, N. and  Davia Rodríguez, M. Á. (2019): Women’s Employment and Childcare Choices in Spain Through The Great Recession, Feminist Economics, 25(2), 173-198, https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2019.1566754 Abstract The Great Recession (2008–13) changed patterns in women’s employment and the use of formal and informal external childcare among mothers of young children in Spain. This paper analyzes these changes using an analytical strategy that takes into account interdependencies across the outcomes under study. The results […]

  • Mothers’ employment and child care choices across the European Union

    Cebrián, I.,  Davia, M. Á., Legazpe, N. and Moreno, G. (2019): Mother’s Employment and Child Care Choices across the European Union, Social Science Research (on-line first), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.02.003 Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyse cross-country differences in the maternal employment patterns and the demand for formal and informal child care as interrelated decisions across Europe. We explore a sample of preschoolers and their mothers drawn from the EU-SILC (2005–2013) in a set of […]

  • Education, age and skills: An analysis using PIAAC data

    Calero, J., Murillo Huertas, I.P. and Raymond Bara, J.L. (2019): Education, age and skills: An analysis using PIAAC data, European Journal of Education, 1-21,  https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12318 Abstract The main aim of this article is to analyse the change of adult skills, as captured by cognitive skills assessed in PIAAC, across age cohorts, taking into account that the quality of schooling may change from one cohort to another. We estimate a model […]

  • Remittances and educational outcomes: A regional investigation for Moldova

    Matano, A. y Ramos, R. (2018): Remittances and educational outcomes: A regional investigation for Moldova, Annals in Regional Science, 60 (3), 451-471. Abstract This paper looks at the relationship between remittances and higher education in Moldovan regions. The objective is to test whether remittances are associated with an increase in the likelihood of attending higher education institutions by taking into account a possible disruptive effect of migration and looking for […]

  • Regional differences in the Okun´s relationship: New evidence for Spain (1980-2015)

    Bande, R. y Martín Román, Á. (2018): Regional differences in the Okun´s relationship: New evidence for Spain (1980-2015), Investigaciones Regionales, 41, 137-165 Abstract: This article provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between the unemployment rate and the output growth in Spain at the regional level. The «gap version» with the output growth on the left-hand side of the equation is our benchmark model. Our empirical results show that all […]