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Accounting for Changes in the Spanish Wage Distribution : The Role of Employment Composition Effects
Carrasco, Raquel - 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/10013120495
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Real Wage Responsiveness to Unemployment in Spain : Asymmetries Along the Business Cycle
Font, Paulino - 2015
in Spain. Real wages are weakly procyclical in Spain and, focusing on different phases of the business cycle, we find …, higher levels of unemployment do not translate into additional real wage adjustments when the economy is contracting, while … lower levels of unemployment during expansions have incremental effects on wage elasticity. This general result holds after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027875
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The Unequal Consequences of Job Loss Across Countries
Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo Maria; Barcelo, Cristina - 2022
displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal experience losses three times as high. French and Austrian workers face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080742
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Contract Staggering and Unemployment During the Great Recession : Evidence from Spain
Díez-Catalán, Luis - 2015
Spain are automatically extended to all firms, setting wage minima for workers in the same province-industry-skill cell. We … aggregate shocks. Using the exact dates of bargaining periods of all sector-level contracts in Spain, we find that agreements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031020
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Understanding the Spanish Business Innovation Gap : The Role of Spillovers and Firms’ Absorptive Capacity
Montero, Jose Manuel - 2011
This paper investigates whether the existence of knowledge spillovers, differences in the capacity of firms to assimilate them and disparities in some human resource management practices are related with the decision to innovate of Spanish firms. In order to do this, we employ data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133368
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Nowcasting Spanish GDP Growth in Real Time : 'One and a Half Months Earlier'
de Antonio Liedo, David - 2010
The sharp decline in economic activity registered in Spain over 2008 and 2009 has no precedents in recent history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135034
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Firm Behavior, Market Deregulation and Productivity in Spain
Alonso-Borrego, Cesar - 2010
The aim of this paper is to analyze the evolution of productivity and how firm behavior and institutional conditions affects productivity. For that purpose, we use a longitudinal sample of Spanish manufacturing and services companies between 1983 and 2006, as well as OECD indicators on product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135684
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Mitigating the Pro-Cyclicality of Basel II
Repullo, Rafael - 2010
Policy discussions on the recent financial crisis feature widespread calls to address the pro-cyclical effects of regulation. The main concern is that the new risk-sensitive bank capital regulation (Basel II) may amplify business cycle fluctuations. This paper compares the leading alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136687
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Credit Supply : Identifying Balance-Sheet Channels with Loan Applications and Granted Loans
Jiménez, Gabriel - 2010
all loans granted in Spain. We find that during the period analyzed both worse economic and tighter monetary conditions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137617
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The Incidence of Nominal and Real Wage Rigidity : An Individual-Based Sectoral Approach
Messina, Julian - 2010
sectors in Belgium, Denmark, Spain and Portugal. Our methodology follows the approach recently developed for the International …
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