Acosta-Ballesteros, J., Osorno-del Rosal, M. & Rodríguez-Rodríguez, O.M.: Overeducation of Young Workers in Spain: How Much Does the First Job Matter? Social Indicators Research This article contributes to recent overeducation literature on the impact of an initial education mismatch on workers’ future careers. Specifically, using the 2009 ad-hoc module of the Spanish Labour Force Survey, we quantify the differences in the probability of overeducation depending on the quality of individuals’ […]

Acosta-Ballesteros, J., Osorno-Del Rosal, M. &  Rodríguez-Rodríguez, O.M.: Gender differences in the quality of the school-to-work transition in Spain, Applied Economics, 49 ( 57). Abstrac This article analyses to what extent gender affects the quality of the school-to-work transition in Spain, paying special attention to workers’ educational attainment. We estimate a four-equation system that explains the main obstacles young people face in their insertion process: part-time work, overeducation, fixed-term contracts […]

Referencia Legazpe, N. (2016): Decisiones de formación de la pareja y maternidad en las mujeres españolas, Revista de Economía Aplicada, 72 (XXIV), 23-45. Resumen El objetivo del presente trabajo de investigación es analizar los factores que influyen en la decisión de la primera convivencia en pareja y, posteriormente, los factores que determinan la probabilidad de que una mujer tenga su primer, segundo o tercer hijo, para un conjunto de mujeres […]

Referencia: Blázquez, M., Herrarte, A. y Sáez, F. (2017): Determinants of occupational matching: An empirical analysis based on administrative records, Revista de Economía Aplicada, 73 (XXV), 1-35. Abstract Using data from administrative records of public employment offices, we study the main factors determining occupational matching, measured by the relationship between the occupation demanded by jobseekers on their job applications and the corresponding final occupation in the job they find. The […]

Mateos Romero, L., Murillo Huertas, I.P. y Salinas Jiménez, M.M. (2017): Wage effects of cognitive skills and educational mismatch in Europe, Journal of Policy Modeling, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2017.08.001 Abstract This paper analyzes the returns to education and educational mismatch in thirteen European countries taking account not only of years of education but also of cognitive skills actually acquired by workers. Using the PIAAC database, our results suggest that both years of education […]

  Agudelo, S. y Sala, H. (2017): Wage rigidities in Colombia: Measurement, causes, and policy implications, Journal of Policy Modeling, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2017.04.004   Abstract   This paper evaluates the extent of wage rigidities in Colombia over a period, 2002–2014, in which the fall in unemployment was relatively slow with respect to sustained economic growth. Following Holden and Wulfsberg (2009), we compute a measure of downward real wage rigidity (DRWR) of 12.09%, […]

Murillo Huertas, I.P., Ramos, R. and Simón, H. (2017): Regional differences in the gender wage gap in Spain, Social Indicators Research, DOI 10.1007/s11205-016-1461-8. Abstract This study examines regional differences in the gender wage gap in Spain using matched employer–employee microdata, two different econometric decomposition methods and panel data techniques. Our findings suggest that Spain shows a significant regional heterogeneity in the size of the raw gap, roughly comparable to cross-country […]

Cueto, B. y Malo, M.Á. (2016): Do partial disability pensions close the earnings gap?, Hacienda Pública Española-Review of Public Economics, 216, 103-125. Abstract In this article, we estimate the total earnings losses of male workers with a partial disability, i.e., they are able to work at a different occupation after the disability’s onset. We use a Spanish administrative dataset (Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales) from a specific partial disability pension […]

García-Serrano, C., Arranz, J.M. y Hernanz, V. (2017): Job quality: Are there differences by types of contract?, Social Indicators Research, DOI:http://10.1007/s11205-017-1586-4 Abstract The aim of this article is to build and measure an employment quality index that meets four conditions: it is simple and understandable; it enables measurement over a long time period; it can be updated on an annual basis; it is comparable between groups of workers. Our index […]

Cebrián, I. (Ed.) (2017): Precarización y empobrecimiento de la población trabajadora en España, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Servicio de Publicaciones. Resumen La economía española empezó a sentir la llegada de la crisis económica a finales de 2007 y no fue hasta el segundo trimestre de 2014 cuando aparecieron los primeros síntomas de que la recuperación llegaba por fin al empleo. El análisis de los acontecimientos vividos durante todos estos […]