La intervención de los juzgados de lo Social en casos de despido da lugar a que pueda existir una diferencia importante entre las indemnizaciones por despido establecidas por la ley y los costes efectivos de despido (después de su resolución). Además de los costes asociados al procedimiento...

The main goal of this thesis is to investigate the reasons why firms do often adopt inefficient technologies even when superior ones are widely available, and to assess their consequences. From a macroeconomic perspective it has been emphasized that differences in the adoption and diffusion...

This paper considers a dynamic matching model with imperfectly observable worker effort. In equilibrium, the wage distribution is truncated from below by a no-shirking condition. This downward wage rigidity induces the same type of inefficient churning and "contractual fragility" as in Ramey and...