Título: Competencies, firms and qualification mismatch.Returns to education and their limits Autora: María Ramos Martín Director: Carlos García Serrano Codirectora: Leire Salazar Vélez Universidad: Universidad de Alcalá de Henares Fecha de lectura: 07/04/2016 Calificación: Sobresaliente Cum Laude Abstract There is an agreement in the literature on the positive effects of education in labour market outcomes. On average, more educated individuals have indeed better employment and earnings prospects. However, there may […]

Gómez-Jiménez, Á.L. (2016): Protección del empleo y flujos del mercado de trabajo en España: Efectos de las reformas de 2010 y 2012, Revista de Economía Laboral, 13, 34-62. ResumenEn este artículo se analiza el impacto de las reformas laborales de  2010 y 2012 en España,  particularmente en lo que atañe a la  legislación de protección del empleo, sobre los flujos entre el  desempleo y el empleo asalariado (y dentro de este) con datos […]

Pérez, C., Martín-Román, Á. & Moral, A. (2015): The impact of leisure complementarity on the labour force participation of older males in Spain, Applied Economics Letters, 22 (3), 214-217.   Abstract This work seeks to gauge the complementarity or shared leisure effect in Spain. The study evidences the importance which the increase in female activity rates has on the decision of their male spouses to prolong their labour market participation. Thus, if active ageing […]

Martín-Román, Á., Moral, A. &Martínez-Matute, M. (2015): Peer effects in judicial decisions: Evidence from Spanish labour courts, International Review of Law and Economics, 42, 20-37. Abstract The aim of this paper is to estimate peer effects in judicial decisions by exploring whether local and/or regional patterns may impact these decisions. The analysis of these patterns allows us to detect the existence of different social or neighbourhood effects, namely, contextual, correlated […]

Martin-Roman, A. L., & Moral, A. (2016): Moral Hazard in Monday Claim Filing: Evidence from Spanish Sick Leave Insurance,The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy,16(1), 437-476.   Abstract The Monday effect on workers’ compensation insurance shows that there is a higher proportion of hard-to-diagnose injuries the first day of the week. The aim of this paper is to test whether the physiological hypothesis or the economic explanation is more […]

Montilla, M. (2016): “Dinámica del mercado laboral por sexo en Venezuela: 1997-2012. Un análisis descriptivo”, Revista de Economía Laboral, 13 (1), 1-33.     Resumen Este trabajo tiene como objetivo estimar, analizar y comparar el comportamiento de los flujos de entrada y salida, y las probabilidades de transición instantáneas entre inactividad, desocupación y ocupación de hombres y mujeres en edad de trabajar (personas de 15 años y más) en Venezuela […]

Over-education and Gender Occupational Differences in Spain I. García Mainar, G. García Martín y V. Montuenga Social Indicators Research, 124 (3), 807-833.   Abstract This paper explores the role of over-education in shaping the negative relationship between the education level attained by employees and the fact of working in a gender-dominated occupation, in Spain, a country where the phenomenon of over-education is common. Applying multinomial logit regressions, and controlling for […]

Hospido, L. (2015): Wage Dynamics in the Presence of Unobserved Individual and Job Heterogeneity, Labour Economics, 33, 81-93.  Highlights •We develop a wage model with individual effects, job effects and a persistent shock •Estimated persistence is robust to any distribution of the unobserved heterogeneity •Once individual and job effects are considered persistence is significant but small •The variance of the job effects is 40% of the variance of the individual […]

Santero, R. y Castro, B. (2016): Análisis de las condiciones laborales en las entidades de la economía social en España desde una perspectiva de género, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.5209/rev_REVE.2016.v121.51309 Resumen: Las empresas de economía social comparten unos valores que motivan un comportamiento diferente de éstas en relación con la composición de sus plantillas, las condiciones de trabajo, su especialización productiva y su ubicación geográfica frente a las empresas ordinarias (sociedades anónimas y […]

Santero, R., Segovia, M., Castro, B., Figueroa, C. y Talón, P. (2015): Gender differences in the hospitality industry: A Job quality index, Tourism Management, Vol. 51, pp. 234–246 Abstract: Employment in the hospitality industry is generally associated with lower quality of employment opportunities than other industries. While women’s participation has improved both quantitatively and qualitatively, they continue to encounter a host of barriers attributable to labour market discrimination. A gender-oriented […]