Núñez, F., Arcos-Vargas, Á., Usabiaga, C., & Álvarez-de-Toledo, P. (2022). On directors’ compensation: a multilevel analysis of Spanish listed companies. Empirical Economics, 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-021-02183-4 Resumen: This study analyzes the determinants of the annual compensation of directors belonging to the boards of the Spanish companies that constitute the IBEX 35 stock index. We investigate the importance of observed and unobserved heterogeneity in explaining director compensation. Based on a three-level mixed effect […]

Ayala, L., Martín-Román, J., & Navarro-Ruiz, C. (2022). Unemployment shocks and material deprivation in the European Union: A synthetic control approach. Economic Systems, 101053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2022.101053   Resumen:  This paper analyzes how material deprivation responds to drastic changes in unemployment levels. We explore unemployment shocks registered in some European Union countries during the so-called Great Recession. To do so, we apply the synthetic control methodology, which has been rarely used in the […]

Santero-Sánchez, R., & Núñez, B. C. (2022). Pursuing equal pay for equal work: Gender diversity in management positions and the gender pay gap throughout the wage distribution. BRQ Business Research Quarterly, 23409444221125239. https://doi.org/10.1177/23409444221125239 Resumen: Despite the massive incorporation of women into the labor market, equal pay for equal work remains a challenge. This article analyzes the influence of gender diversity in management positions on the gender wage gap (GWG) throughout […]

Usabiaga, C., Núñez, F., Arendt, L., Gałecka-Burdziak, E., & Pater, R. (2022). Skill requirements and labour polarisation: An association analysis based on Polish online job offers. Economic Modelling, 115, 105963. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105963 Resumen:  This paper uses the methodological scheme of contingency tables to explore polarisation in the Polish labour market. We use a large database of online job offers published on selected Polish job portals in the period 2017–2019, whereas most […]

Giménez-Nadal, J. I., Molina, J. A., & Velilla, J. (2022). Occupational sorting and the transmission of self-employment between generations. Applied Economics Letters, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2022.2074354 Resumen: Existing research has focused on factors explaining self-employment decisions, and the intergenerational transmission of self-employment has been posited as one explanatory factor. However, findings differ across countries, and the channels for such transmission remain unclear. Using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and […]

García-Pérez, C., Prieto, M., Seva, J., Simon, H., & Simón-Albert, R. (2022). A multidimensional operationalization of precarious employment with a counting approach: evidence from Spain. Applied Economics, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2022.2091744 Resumen: The article proposes a novel multidimensional operationalization of precarious employment using the Alkire-Foster dual threshold counting approach methodology. The proposal is made in a context in which, although precarious employment tends to be considered a multidimensional construct characterized by an […]

Del Rey, E., Naval, J., & Silva, J. I. (2022). Hours and wages: A bargaining approach. Economics Letters, 110652. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110652 Resumen: In a recent paper, Bick et al. (2022) show the presence of a hump-shaped relationship between hours and hourly wages with a maximum around 50 h worked. We show that a model with fixed labor costs where workers and firms bargain in wages and hours can help explain this non-linear relationship. […]

Escudero-Castillo, I., Mato Díaz, F. J., & Rodriguez-Alvarez, A. (2022). Effects of precarious work on mental health: evidence from Spain. Applied Economics, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2022.2098241 Resumen: Given that a relationship has been established between employment status and psychological well-being, the deepening segmentation of the Spanish labour market may be putting the mental health of part of the population at risk. However, the relationship between work and well-being could be influenced by […]

Arranz, J. M., & García-Serrano, C. (2022). La evaluación del impacto de las políticas públicas: el caso de las políticas del mercado de trabajo. Papeles de Economía Española, (172), 139-171. https://www.funcas.es/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/PEE_172_Jos%C3%A9-M.-ARRANZ.pdf Resumen: El objetivo de este artículo es doble. Por un lado, se revisan algunos estudios que han utilizado los métodos disponibles para evaluar el impacto de las políticas públicas en el mercado de trabajo en España. Por otro lado, […]

Chiappori, P.-A., Gimenez-Nadal, J.I., Molina, J.A. and J. Velilla (2022). Household labor supply: Collective evidence in developed countries. In Handbook in Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (K.F. Zimmermann, Ed.). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_271-1 Resumen: This chapter reviews applied research on household collective labor supply, to show some empirical results in developed countries. The collective model of household labor supply is summarized, in which spouses allocate their resources so that they […]