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Assimilation of immigrants in Spain: A longitudinal analysis
Izquierdo, Mario; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vegas, Raquel - Banco de España - 2009
migrants from outside the EU-15 in Spain. Using our panel dataset we show that immigrants reduce around the half of the initial … the quality of migrants has taken place over the recent years. This skill upgrading of new immigrant cohorts is evident in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969778
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Housing tenure and labour mobility: a comparison across European countries
Barceló, Cristina - Banco de España - 2006
This paper studies housing tenure and labour mobility using individual data from the ECHP for five European countries. First, the effect of housing tenure on the unemployed workers' labour mobility is studied using a discrete unemployment duration model with two alternative exits to employment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005155300
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Wage inequality, segregation by skill and the price of capital in an assignment model
Gavilán, Ángel - Banco de España - 2006
Some pieces of empirical evidence suggest that in the U.S., over the last few decades, (i) wage inequality between-plants has risen much more than wage inequality within-plants and (ii) there has been an increase in the segregation of workers by skill into separate plants. This paper presents a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005590660
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Learning about Migration Decisions from the Migrants. An Exercise in Endogenous Sampling and Complementary Datasets.
Bover, Olympia; Arellano, Manuel - Banco de España - 1999
Spain, using a large administrative micro dataset on migrants. Conditional migration probabilities are identified by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005155207
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Migrations in Spain: Historical Background and Current Trends.
Bover, Olympia; Velilla, Pilar - Banco de España - 1999
The authors review the different migration episodes in Spain since the beginning of the 20th century, with special …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005138499
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Accounting for changes in the Spanish wage distribution: the role of employment Composition effects
Carrasco, Raquel; Jimeno, Juan F.; Ortega, A. Carolina - Banco de España - 2011
Despite a rapid decrease in unemployment and strong GDP and employment growth, real wages barely increased in Spain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291772
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Changes in the wage structure in EU countries
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Jimeno, Juan F.; Lamo, Ana - Banco de España - 2010
We study changes in the wage structures in nine EU countries over 1995-2002 and the role of demand, supply and institutional developments in shaping these changes. Using comparable cross-country microeconomic data, we compute for each country and at each decile of the wage distribution, the part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500151
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Emigration and human capital: who leaves, who comes back and what difference does it make?
Lacuesta, Aitor - Banco de España - 2006
selection of migrants in terms of unobserved characteristics that affect their productivity. Wages in Mexico of those migrants …-returning migrants in terms of unobserved productivity. To test whether returning migrants' wages contain any useful information, I …, the distribution of abilities of non-returning migrants is more similar to the distribution of temporary migrants than to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022278
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Market Power, Total Factor Productivity Growth, and Structural Change. An Illustration for Spain, 1983-1996
Siotis, Georges - Banco de España - 2000
This paper analyses the evolution of total factor productivity growth and market power in Spain during the period 1983 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005590674
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Micro evidence of the brain gain hypothesis: The case of Cape Verde
Batista, Catia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro - Banco de España - 2009
propose hinges on the ideal characteristics of our survey, namely on full histories of migrants and on a new set of exclusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969782