Since the start of the Great Recession the unemployment rate in Spain has risen by almost 18 percentage points. The … (1995-2007) that set the number of foreigners living in Spain at 11% of the population. This paper documents the … characteristics of recent migration flows to Spain and compares how foreign and Spanish nationals are moving abroad and across Spanish …

migrants from outside the EU-15 in Spain. Using our panel dataset we show that immigrants reduce around the half of the initial …

integration of immigrants. To identify the contribution of this burden to the native-immigrant employment gap, it exploits … major obstacle to the integration of immigrant mothers. While the employment gap between non-EU immigrant and native mothers …

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 …

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 …