El objetivo de este artículo es doble. En primer lugar, se trata de realizar una primera evaluación de la última reforma laboral aprobada. En segundo lugar, se presentan propuestas de mejora que podrían desarrollarse a partir de enero de 2012, fecha prevista para la implantación en España...

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar en qué medida las últimas reformas laborales implementadas en España han conseguido reducir la dualidad laboral entre trabajadores con contratos indefinidos y temporales. Nuestro análisis se centra en especial en las políticas de fomento de la...

Las tasas de abandono escolar en España descendieron desde el 70% en 1977 hasta el 30% a finales de los años 90, pero se mantuvieron aproximadamente en un 30% en los últimos años. Este trabajo analiza el papel de la Ley Orgánica de Ordenación General del Sistema Educativo (LOGSE) de 1990...

Over the last 50 years, some important reforms in European countries were aimed at improving the system of vocational studies. By contrast, the Spanish educational law (LOGSE) from 1990 moved in the opposite direction. While the LOGSE increased the number of compulsory schooling years from 8 to...

La resistencia a las reformas laborales puede explicarse como un conflicto de intereses entre colectivos de individuos con distintas preferencias sobre la flexibilidad laboral. En este artículo presentamos evidencia empírica sobre cómo varían estas preferencias en función de las...

The main purpose of this work is to document the driven forces of the fall in the wage skill premium (WSP) in Spain in the last two decades. We show that the increase of occupational mismatch helps to explain the downward trend in university returns since the mid-80s. In the second part of the...

After the early 90s crisis, Spain had a long period of prosperity that ended abruptly with the recent global crisis. What many did not realized is that Spain, by following a different growth trajectory than a majority of the EU15 countries, was choosing a wrong detour. In this paper, we argue...

This paper provides a comparison of the incidence and composition of female employment both in the EU and in the US. Despite a significant increase in female labour market participation in the EU, about 50% of the difference between the employment rates in the US and the EU can still be...

In order to offer a balanced assessment of the role of minimum wages in the Welfare State, seven basic questions need to be answered: (i) Why is the minimum wage a useful redistributive tool?; (ii) How binding are minimum wage floors in different countries?; (iii) To what extent do minimum wages...

This paper describes the gender distribution of research fields in economics by means of a new dataset about researchers working in the world top-50 Economics departments, according to the rankings of the Econphd.net website. We document that women are unevenly distributed across fields and test...