The Phillips curve has flattened in Spain over 1995-2006: unemployment has fallen by 15 percentage points, with roughly … constant inflation. This change has been more pronounced than elsewhere. We argue that this stems from the immigration boom in … Spain over this period. We show that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is shifted by immigration if natives' and immigrants …

The Phillips curve has flattened in Spain over 1995-2006: unemployment has fallen by 15 percentage points, with roughly … constant inflation. This change has been more pronounced than elsewhere. We argue that this stems from the immigration boom in … Spain over this period. We show that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is shifted by immigration if natives’ and immigrants …

Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects … around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its … characteristics such as mature age, lack of experience, and entitlement to unemployment benefits are key to understand the cross …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …

In this paper we analyze the relationship between unemployment and consumption. We study this relationship with panel … empirical results indicate that an increase in the duration of unemployment spells of male household heads is associated with … Mediterranean, provide a fundamental source of insurance against unemployment in southern Europe. …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We …