During the last decade, unemployment rates in the European Union have been higher than in other regions, e.g., the United States, and these are even higher in Spain. It has been argued that the different degrees of labour mobility between the European and the American labour markets can account...

Este artículo analiza las decisiones de los jóvenes españoles entre estudiar y trabajar haciendo especial énfasis en la influencia del Salario Mínimo Interprofesional (SMI) y la capacidad de financiación de los gastos educativos entre otros factores. Los datos usados provienen del primer...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to approach a new aspect of the assimilation of immigrants in Spain. In particular, it is analyzed the effect of the type of contract on immigrant wages. The data used in this analysis come from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey, which was conducted...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed knowledge about the relationship between the inter-firm job mobility and the occupational transitions in Spain during the last years. In particular, it is tested whether if the type of job-to-job mobility (voluntary or involuntary) has some...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to offer new empirical evidence for Spain about the transition into self‐employment or paid employment of potential entrants to the labor market and their duration in both segments of the market. Design/methodology/approach – The econometric methodology...

R<sc>uiz</sc> A. C. Geographical mobility and potential wage gain of immigrants within Spain, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Geographical mobility of workers within countries can be a means of equilibrating regional economic disparities. Within this context, a relevant topic is the mobility of foreign workers in the...

Un buen número de trabajos que estudian la relación existente entre educación e ingresos demuestra que los individuos más educados perciben mayores ingresos, evidenciando la presencia de rendimientos privados de la educación. Sin embargo, los rendimientos sociales y su relación con las...

This paper aims to verify the existence of gender-based wage discrimination in Spain and, if so, to quantify it. Using data from the Spanish section of the European Community Household Panel, we first estimate earnings equations for men and women using the instrumental variable method proposed...

En este trabajo se estudian los determinantes individuales del capital social en España. El capital social influye en el desarrollo económico, tal y como demuestran numerosos estudios, y se puede definir como la confianza, tanto interpersonal como institucional, y los aspectos positivos de las...