microeconomic data from Italy and Spain I obtain three main results. First, the unemployment elasticity of wages is negative and … of unemployment is associated with a drop in wages of 5.2 percent. Second, according to my results, Italian wages are … worker is hired. Finally, Spanish wages are not significantly correlated with past unemployment. An important determinant of …

This article studies the responses of real wages and labour market flows of immigrants in Spain for the period between … for immigrants than for natives: a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a 0.61 and 0 ….85% drop in real wages for natives and immigrants, respectively. However, these differences only occur among low-tenure workers …

and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …

and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …

and Spain. An increase in the contemporaneous local unemployment rate of 1 p.p. diminished contemporaneous mean wages by … set in the metal working industry with labor market histories of metal workers drawn from Social Security records in Italy … about 0.45 p.p. between 2005 and 2013 in both countries. Instead, a 1 p.p. higher unemployment rate back at the time of …

. They also suggest that screening and monitoring costs imply a lower sensitivity of wages to ability in larger …

unemployment duration. This paper studies the effects of employment protection laws on unemployment spells in two countries: Italy …

endogeneity of the ownership status and institutional differences across countries. Third, post-unemployment wages are studied. We … do not find any effects of the unemployment spell duration and the geographical mobility on wages after controlling for …. First, the effect of housing tenure on the unemployed workers' labour mobility is studied using a discrete unemployment …