the minimum wage, trade unions, unemployment insurance, progressive income taxation and restrictions on labour contracts û …

We focus on the statics and dynamics of poverty in Spain using data from the first eight waves of the European …

using unique data from a survey conducted on the disabled population in Spain in 2008. We further measure the level of … Spain, with socioeconomic status being an important factor in access to LTC. We find that individuals at the higher end of …

European regions have experienced a polarisation of their unemployment rates between 1986 and 1996, as regions with …

unemployment. Although these contracts have been widely used, unemployment has remained about the same after fifteen years. This …

Average unemployment in Europe today is relatively high compared with OECD countries outside Europe. The majority of … countries in Europe today have lower unemployment than any OECD country outside Europe, including the US. These two fa cts are … consistent because the four largest countries in Continental Western Europe namely, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, (the Big Four …

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …