Álvarez de Toledo, P., Núñez, F., & Usabiaga, C. (2020). Matching in segmented labor markets: An analytical proposal based on high-dimensional contingency tables. Economic Modelling, 93, 175-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2020.07.019 Resumen:  The Spanish economy has a very problematic labor market characterized by high and persistent levels of unemployment, elevated long-term unemployment, strong segmentation and low regional mobility, among other drawbacks. This paper uses labor matching data from a large database of administrative microdata (Continuous […]

Moral, A., Rosales, V., & Martín-Román, Á. (2021). Professional vs. non-professional labour judges: their impact on the quality of judicial decisions. International Review of Law and Economics, 65, 105948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2020.105948 Resumen:  This paper proposes an empirical analysis to study if the quality of judicial decisions is influenced by the number and type of judges working in the court. A set of econometric models will be estimated in order to explain […]

Almeida, A., Golpe, A., & Justo, R. (2021). From hot to cold: A spatial analysis of self‐employment in the United States. Papers in Regional Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/pirs.12597 Resumen:  Self‐employment is a geographical phenomenon influenced by national and regional contexts. However, the study of both contexts combined is scarce in the literature on the formation of regional clusters. Using panel data from the USA for 1998‐2018, we perform different techniques to study […]

Corrales-Herrero, H., Rodriguez-Prado, B. (2021), «Measuring Youth Living Conditions in Europe: A Multidimensional Cross-Country Approach», Social Indicators Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02608-8 Resumen:  Since the onset of the Great Recession, it could be argued that it is the young who have been hardest hit in their living conditions. This paper offers a comprehensive description of youth living conditions and how they evolved during the recession period. To do so, we develop a synthetic index […]

Corrales-Herrero, H., Him Camaño, M., Miranda-Escolar, B. and Ogando Canabal, O. (2021), «Anti-poverty transfers and school attendance: Panama’s Red de Oportunidades», International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 48 No. 2, pp. 204-220. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-05-2020-0336 Resumen: Purpose: The purpose of this paper seeks to gauge the impact of the Red de Oportunidades programme on the school attendance of children from households that participate in the programme. Design/methodology/approach: In order to measure the impact […]

Clemente, J., Lázaro-Alquézar, A., & Montañés, A. (2019). US State health expenditure convergence: A revisited analysis. Economic Modelling, 83, 210-220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2019.02.011 Resumen: This paper studies the evolution of US state health expenditure for a sample that covers 1966–2014. Our results provide evidence against the existence of a single pattern of behavior of personal health care expenditure across the US states. Rather, we can observe the existence of two statistically different convergence clubs. We […]

Clemente, J., Lázaro-Alquézar, A., & Montañés, A. (2019). Convergence in Spanish Public health expenditure: Has the decentralization process generated disparities?. Health Policy, 123(5), 503-507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.03.003 Resumen: This study examines the per capita public health expenditures among the Spanish regions. To that end, we employ the database elaborated by the BBVA Fundation and IVIE (2013) which covers the years 1991–2010. We first test for the null hypothesis of convergence by employing the […]

Baños, J. F., Rodriguez-Alvarez, A., & Suarez-Cano, P. (2019). The efficiency of public employment services: a matching frontiers approach. Applied Economic Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1108/AEA-06-2019-0006 Resumen: Purpose: This paper aims to model the efficiency of labour offices belonging to the public employment services (PESs) in Spain using a stochastic matching frontier approach. Design/methodology/approach: With this aim in mind, the authors apply a random parameter model approach to control for observed and unobserved […]

Mussida, C., & Parisi, M. L. (2020). Features of personal income inequality before and during the crisis: an analysis of Italian regions. Regional Studies, 54(4), 472-482. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1624711 Resumen: This paper gives extensive evidence about disposable income inequality inside the regions of Italy and its associated population features. It explores whether the Great Recession changed income inequality within or between regions. Inequality appears largely to be a within-region problem, particularly in […]

Iriondo, I. (2020). Evaluation of the impact of Erasmus study mobility on salaries and employment of recent graduates in Spain. Studies in Higher Education, 45(4), 925-943. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.1582011 Resumen: Little empirical literature assessing the impact of Erasmus study program on graduate career prospects exists. All too often, the empirical evidence available is either bias or indirect. Furthermore, the existing differences among study mobility participants and non-participant peers in terms of ability, […]