Despite a rapid decrease in unemployment and strong GDP and employment growth, real wages barely increased in Spain … over the period 1995-2006. An explanation of this lack of growth may rely on employment composition effects derived from … structural changes, such as the rise in the weights of employment in the construction and services sectors, the increase in …

to a subsidized employment program were randomly selected to attend job interviews. Employers hiring a new employee from … administrative employment data, we find that attending the job interview led to an increase of 15 percentage points in the likelihood …

small a response on the employment margin. The other model variants fit employment dynamics better, but then imply too … the responses of wages, inflation and employment …

labour force, the share of temporary employment and the amount of resources spent in training. In addition to these factors …

The sharp decline in economic activity registered in Spain over 2008 and 2009 has no precedents in recent history …

share of temporary employment tends to reduce productivity, the effect being stronger for services firms, which make a more … intensive use of this employment type. Our results also show that increases in competition lead to productivity improvements …

all loans granted in Spain. We find that during the period analyzed both worse economic and tighter monetary conditions …

sectors in Belgium, Denmark, Spain and Portugal. Our methodology follows the approach recently developed for the International …