En este estudio utilizamos datos administrativos de la Seguridad Social para analizar la dinámica de los ingresos laborales y la incertidumbre respecto a ingresos futuros en España entre 2005 y 2018. Construimos medidas individuales de dicha incertidumbre basadas en características...

El objetivo de este estudio es analizar la calidad de la información sobre endeudamiento recogida por la Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF). Para ello, implementamos un cruce de los datos de esta con los datos administrativos de la Central de Información de Riesgos (CIR), que contiene,...

El objetivo de este estudio es analizar la calidad de la información sobre endeudamiento recogida por la Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF). Para ello, implementamos un cruce de los datos de esta con los datos administrativos de la Central de Información de Riesgos (CIR), que contiene,...

Labour ‘flexibility’ is often portrayed as important to competitive success. Using evidence from an original survey of UK firms, this paper investigates the relationships between firms' use of, on the one hand, various flexible work practices, human resource management techniques, and...

Most studies of wage differentials explain such differentials in terms of factors like gender, race, and human capital. But systematic gaps in earnings can arise even among homogenous individuals as a result of asymmetric employer and worker information gaps, thereby reflecting labour market...

Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus vier Aufsätzen, die sich mit Fragen des Außenhandels und der Arbeitsmarktökonomie auseinandersetzen. Der erste Aufsatz untersucht in einem internationalen Oligopol die Interaktion zwischen Handelsliberalisierung, Produkt- und Prozessinnovationen und...

This work revisits the role of regulations in emergence o f the shadow economy. In particular, it supplements the previous theoretical research that mainly ignored the fact that the decision to “go underground” is essentially a result of both employers and employees interacting in the labour...

This paper analyses the emergence of the informal economy in the environment characterised by non-competitive labour markets with wage bargaining. We develop a simple extension of the standard search model à la Pissarides (2000) with formal and informal sectors to show how a government’s...

This metadata relates to an electronic version of an article published in The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Volume 19, Issue 5, May 2008, pages 896-915. The International Journal for Human Resource Management is available online at informaworldTM at...

In a non-stationary job search model we allow unemployed workers to have a permanent option to leave the labour force. Transitions into nonparticipation occur when reservation wages drop below the utility of being nonparticipant. Taking account of these transitions allows the identification of...