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We use the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data to construct several measures of non-cognitive skills and to analyze the relationship between non-cognitive skills and earnings. We construct measures for non-cognitive skills based on previous research in...
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This article analyzes changes in the occupational employment share in Spain for the period 1997 - 2012 and the way … increase in the share of occupations at the low end of the wage distribution. Sector reallocation may have partially … contributed to explain the polarization process in Spain during the years of expansion (1997 - 2007) but it is a minor factor …
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inequality in per capita income. The level of inequality in Spain is more moderate when total gross household income is analysed …This paper analyses the level of inequality in Spain and how it evolved over the course of the past crisis and the … early stages of the current recovery. To this end, it first introduces the various dimensions of wage, income, consumption …
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how having a temporary contract in Spain is associated to lower levels of on-the-job training (OJT). Next, we find that … in the PIAAC study. Although we choose Spain as a case study of a dual labor market, we also provide cross …
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This paper analyzes how changes in the firing-costs gap between permanent and temporary workers affect firms’ TFP in a dual labour market. We argue that, under plausible conditions, firms’ temp-to-perm conversion rates go down when this gap increases. Temporary workers respond to lower...
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This paper updates the available evidence on the public-private wage gap in Spain, which dates back to 2012. Through … distribution by gender and education have evolved during and after the Great Recession. Conventional Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions …
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