A highly segmented labor market usually favors a mismatch between supply and demand, significantly limiting the functional flexibility and the resilience of this market to macroeconomic shocks. From this perspective, such a market hampers the transition of an EU member to the euro zone,...

This study analyzes the impact of gender and ethnic discrimination on redistributive preferences and productivity using a large online experiment with US citizens on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Participants are randomly allocated to different payment schemes for a real-effort task. Four payment...

Spain, like the whole European Union (EU), is suffering a dramatic ageing process, while older workers (55-64 years) have high inactivity rates. In this sense, the promotion of active ageing will be necessary to guarantee the financial sustainability of pension systems as well as general...