Women and ethnic minorities remain seriously underrepresented in skilled construction occupations despite European Union policy to overcome labour market segregation and despite their increasing participation in the economy-wide labour market. The paper seeks to account for differences in female...

El trabajo sostiene que la debilidad de la demanda interna es una  variable determinante del lento crecimiento de la productividad del  trabajo que han registrado las economías europeas a lo largo de las  últimas décadas. Asimismo se constata que el (bajo) ritmo de  crecimiento de la...

This paper constructs a theoretical model to study the effects on employment of the introduction of flexible labour contracts (i.e. with low firing costs), which occurred in many European countries in the 1980s, which it then tests on Spanish data. The model predicts that such contracts increase...