Pinillos-Franco, S., & Kawachi, I. (2022). Hostile attitudes toward immigrants and refugees are associated with poor self-rated health. Analysis of 21 European countries. Social Science & Medicine, 301, 114969. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114969 Resumen: BackgroundPrevious studies found that individuals who harbor hostile attitudes toward immigrants & refugees tend to vote for far right nationalist parties, and that the same individuals also tend to report worse health status. We sought to test these associations […]

Gimenez-Nadal, J. I., Molina, J. A., & Velilla, J. (2022). Commuting time and sickness absence of US workers. Empirica, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10663-022-09534-z Resumen: This paper analyzes the relationship between commuting time and days of sickness absence of US workers. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the years 2011 to 2017, we find that a 1% increase in the daily commute of workers is associated with an increase […]

Trivin, P. (2021). The wealth-consumption channel: Evidence from a panel of Spanish households. Review of Economics of the Household, 1-52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-021-09586-3 Resumen: In this paper, we use a panel of Spanish households spanning the period 2002–2011 to study the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) out of wealth. The wealth effect is identified by exploiting within-household variations in a period of relatively large volatility in asset prices. We estimate a MPC […]

Amuedo-Dorantes, C., & Borra, C. (2021). The role of non-contributory pensions on internal mobility in Spain. Labour Economics, 70, 101980. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2021.101980 Resumen: Spain is one of the Southern European nations characterized by very low inter-provincial mobility rates despite large inter-regional unemployment rate differences. We examine whether non-contributory pensions – an increasingly important component of many welfare systems, have curtailed the internal migration of younger cohorts over the past three decades. […]

Congregado, E., Gałecka-Burdziak, E., Golpe, A. A., & Pater, R. (2021). Unemployment invariance hypothesis and structural breaks in Poland. The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 24, e00198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeca.2021.e00198 Resumen: We study the long-run relationship between unemployment and the labour force participation rate while accounting for potential non-linearities. We explore two sources of non-linearities: structural breaks (as we allow the relationship to be time-varying) and differences by gender groups. We apply a […]

Raftopoulou, A., & Giannakopoulos, N. (2022). Unemployment and health: a panel event study. Applied Economics Letters, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2022.2044993   Resumen:  Adopting a panel event study framework, we estimate the effect of unemployment on health outcomes by exploiting the variation in the timing of entering unemployment using longitudinal data for Greece. We find that in the periods ahead of an unemployment event, health outcomes decline and unmet needs for medical care increase. […]

Martín-Román, Á. L. (2022). Beyond the added-worker and the discouraged-worker effects: the entitled-worker effect. Economic Modelling, 105812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105812   Resumen: This paper identifies and analyses a new effect related to the cyclical behaviour of labour supply: the Entitled-Worker Effect (EWE). This effect is different from the well-known Added-Worker Effect (AWE) and Discouraged-Worker Effect (DWE). The EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labour institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We develop […]

Giménez-Nadal, J. I., Molina, J. A., & Velilla, J. (2021). Trends in commuting time of European workers: A cross-country analysis. Transport Policy, 116, 327-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.12.016   Resumen:  This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European countries, during the last three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in commuting and the factors affecting commuting behavior. Using data from several waves of the European Working Conditions Survey, […]

Moreno-Mínguez, A., Martín-Román, Á. L., & Moral, A. (2022). Father parental leave use in Spain: the role of the female partner labour situation. Work, Employment and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170211062808   Resumen: This article presents novel empirical evidence of fathers’ parental leave usage by introducing a family dimension in Spain. To test this hypothesis, a bivariate probit estimation was used to analyse the effect of the mother’s labour force participation on the […]

Giménez-Nadal, J. I., Molina, J. A., & Velilla, J. (2021). Intergenerational correlation of self-employment in Western Europe. Economic Modelling, 108, 105741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2021.105741   Resumen: Existing research has focused on factors explaining why individuals become self-employed. Self-employment may represent a significant proportion of total employment in many countries, and the intergenerational correlation of self-employment has been used as an explanatory factor, although findings differ across countries, methods, and strategies. Using data […]