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short-term unemployment spells which are normally unavailable in survey data due to its design. However, the measurement of … unemployment differs in both types of datasets. The resulting gap between total unemployment and registered unemployment is not … Social Security administrative data. I identify unemployed workers who are not receiving unemployment benefits, using …
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' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To … via changes in unemployment, labour market participation, and spatial mobility. Our results provide evidence of asymmetric … adjustment mechanism in expansion, unemployment and spatial mobility become the central ones in recession. We also provide …
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We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in the gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work than males: about 76 % of working age males and 63 % of working age females were employed in 2010. If females work...
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, proxied by their respective unemployment rates, on the labor market of Colombian cities with high migration tradition. These … 2011 for urban areas in Colombia and a differences-in-differences approach, we find that unemployment rates of those … areas with high and moderate migration tradition. In a second stage, we provide evidence that unemployment rates of those …
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This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarisation in Spain between 1994 and 2014. After showing the U-shaped relationship between employment share growth and job's percentile in the wage distribution, I use the task approach to investigate the main determinants behind job...
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Grandparents, and in particular grandmothers, are an important source of informal child care for their grandchildren in most developed countries. The literature shows how these informal transfers of care can help promote female labor participation. However, less is known about how working-age...
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(such as temporary contracts and mini-jobs) as well as unemployment. This combined unstable state captures a fuller picture … of the individual experience of volatile income and uncertain employment status than unemployment alone. We find that the … survival rates of unstable spells in the two countries are much more similar than those from unemployment. This suggests that …
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Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the year after the first child is born, mothers'...
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We investigate the behavior of aggregate hours supplied by workers in permanent (open-ended) contracts and temporary contracts, distinguishing changes in employment (extensive margin) and hours per worker (intensive margin). We focus on the differences between the Great Recession and the start...
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institutions, the tax wedge definition, and the temporal focus significantly affect the results. In the long run, workers bear …
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