While Spain had traditionally under-performed its European counterparts in terms of labor productivity, the trend is … reversed after 2007. The evolution of aggregate productivity in Spain during the Great Recession largely responds to the …

techniques applied to the analysis of six selected economies: France, Japan, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom (UK), and the … periods of economic turmoil. Okun's coefficient is most volatile in Spain and most stable in Sweden and Japan, with France, UK …

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We … contracts and the less restrictive rules regarding the use of the latter contracts in Spain. Using a calibrated search and …

This article analyzes changes in the occupational employment share in Spain for the period 1997-2012 and the way … explain the polarization process in Spain during the years of expansion (1997-2007) but it is a minor factor during the …

This research examines wage differentials associated to different collective bargaining regimes in Spain and their …

This paper estimates an unobserved components model to explore the macro dynamics of entrepreneurship in Spain and the … fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. We find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the …

The aim of this paper is to evaluate various aspects of a family friendly law (Act 39/99) approved in Spain in 1999 …

of a whole business cycle, i.e. 2000‐2013. We focus on Spain – a country hit hard by unemployment increases in downturns …. Our results indicate that unemployment outs are crucial in understanding changes in unemployment rates in Spain …