Santero, R., Castro, B. y Martínez, M.I. (2022): La contribución de los principios de la economía social en Galicia al empleo de la región. Un análisis diferencial frente a empresas mercantiles. Revista del Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social, 153, 83-111. https://doi.org/10.55617/revmites.16 Resumen: El impacto positivo de los principios de las entidades de la economía social se ha analizado ampliamente en la literatura, pero la dificultad de traducirlos a efectos […]

García-Serrano, C. (2022). ¿Dos años que estremecieron el mundo? Los efectos de la pandemia del covid-19 sobre el mercado de trabajo. Papeles de Economía Española, (173), 16-40. https://www.funcas.es/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/PEE-173_Garcia-Serrano.pdf Resumen: El objetivo de este artículo consiste en examinar los efectos que la pandemia del COVID-19 generó sobre el mercado de trabajo español en 2020-2021. Para ello, se revisan las medidas de restricción a la actividad económica que se adoptaron en España […]

Belloc, I., & Molina, J. A. (2023). Are greenhouse gas emissions converging in Latin America? Implications for environmental policies. Economic Analysis and Policy, 77, 337-356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.11.022   Resumen:  This paper investigates greenhouse gas emissions convergence among nineteen Latin American countries, for the period 1970 to 2018. To that end, we use the Phillips–Sul methodology to examine whether these countries have followed an absolute convergence process, or whether there has been […]

Giménez-Nadal, J. I., Molina, J. A., & Velilla, J. (2022). Should We Cheer Together? Gender Differences in Instantaneous Well-being: An Application to COVID-19 Lockdowns. Journal of Happiness Studies, 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-022-00574-7 Resumen: The COVID-19 pandemic has confined millions in their homes, an unprecedented opportunity to spend more time together with family members. This paper explores subjective well-being in the uses of time for US and UK workers, differentiating between solo activities […]

Escudero-Castillo, I., Mato-Díaz, F., & Rodríguez-Alvarez, A. (2022). Psychological Well-Being during the COVID-19 Lockdown: Labour Market and Gender Implications. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-022-10113-4 Resumen:  In the Spring of 2020, a great number of countries introduced different restrictive measures in order to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. This article examines the labour market transitions of individuals brought about by some of those measures, and the effect of […]

Arendt, L., Gałecka-Burdziak, E., Núñez, F., Pater, R., & Usabiaga, C. (2023). Skills requirements across task-content groups in Poland: What online job offers tell us. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 187, 122245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122245 Resumen: Dynamic digitalisation has a profound impact on labour markets, leading to routinisation and job polarisation processes. Most studies on labour polarisation use employment data to track changes in labour demand and incomes across routine and non-routine […]

Serra, L., Silva, J. I., & Vall-Llosera, L. (2022). The unemployment effects of closing non-essential activities during the COVID-19 lockdown: The Spanish municipalities. Economic Analysis and Policy, 76, 806-819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.09.019 Resumen: We study the labour market impact of the confinement measures implemented in Spain to halt the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first quarter of 2020. We use data from 8108 municipalities to quantify the impact of the […]

Escudero-Castillo, I., Mato-Diaz, FJ. & Rodriguez-Alvarez, A. (2022). The Effect of Being Unemployed on Mental Health: The Spanish Case. The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 25(3), 79-89. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36128987/   Resumen: Background: The lack of work appeared to be linked to several symptoms related to poor mental health. Likewise, the reverse relationship, namely the influence of poor mental health on the risk of job loss, has also been analysed, i.e. […]

Giménez-Nadal, J. I., Molina, J. A., & Velilla, J. (2022). The daily mobility of older adults: Urban/rural differences in ten developed countries. The Annals of Regional Science, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-022-01192-0   Resumen: This paper explores the mobility patterns of older adults in ten countries, with a focus on the differences produced by urban environments in their non-work trips. Using detailed time use diaries from the Multinational Time Use Study for the […]

Pham, B. T., & Sala, H. (2022). Fiscal deficits and the socioeconomic consequences of rebalancing: Insights from a TVP-VAR with stochastic volatility. Australian Economic Papers. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8454.12286   Resumen: This article connects two salient economic features: (i) Fiscal shocks have asymmetric effects across business cycle phases (Gechert, Horn, & Paetz, 2019); (ii) the unemployment-output trade-off is time varying and may be unstable. The intertwined dynamic behaviour of fiscal deficit shocks and […]