We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We …, immigrants experience a strong occupational downgrading in Spain when compared to their origin countries. This fact is due to the … strong downgrading they experience when entering the Spanish labour market and their low improvement in the following years …

The objective of the study is to quantify the wage gap between native and immigrant women in Spain taking into account …. The results obtained indicate that, on average, immigrants women earn less than native in the Spanish labour market. This … less attractive in the labour market. If the need to control for common support is neglected, estimates of the wage gap …

commuting time has any effect on worker's labour market supply. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-03, our GMM/IV estimation … yields a positive causal impact of commuting time on the time devoted to the labour market, with one hour of commuting … increasing the time devoted to the labour market by 35 minutes in a working day. Our results shed light on the relationship …

associated to it. We assume this choice is endogenous, and that it depends on preferences and opportunities in the labour market …

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 …

) conducted by the Bank of Spain, we show that households with less trust invest more in housing and less in financial assets, in …