We document the presence of a trade-off between unemployment benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL) in the provision of insurance against labour market risk. The mix of quantity restrictions and price regulations adopted by the various countries would seem to correspond to a...

We document the presence of a trade-off between unemployment benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL) in the provision of insurance against labour market risk. The mix of quantity restrictions and price regulations adopted by the various countries would seem to correspond to a...

El objetivo de este artículo es evaluar el impacto de la reforma de pensiones aprobada en 2011. A través de un modelo de proyección contable con agentes heterogéneos y generaciones solapadas se proyectan los ingresos y gastos del sistema de pensiones para las próximas seis décadas. En...

El objetivo de este artículo es doble. En primer lugar, se trata de realizar una primera evaluación de la última reforma laboral. Pasados doce meses desde su aprobación, esta reforma, la sexta en los últimos 27 años, tampoco está teniendo éxito en reducir una de las mayores lacras del...

This paper is concerned with an extension of the notion of Pareto efficiency, referred to as Millian efficiency, to evaluate the performance of symmetric allocations in an overlapping generations setting with endogenous fertility. The criterium of Pareto dominance underlying the notion of...

Countries with low intragenerational redistribution in social security systems (Bismarckian) are associated with larger public pension expenditures, a smaller fraction of private pension and lower income inequality than countries with more redistributive social security (Beveridgean). This...

Should governments implement policies that affect fertility decisions on efficiency grounds? In this paper, we adress this question by developing an extension of the notion of Pareto efficiency, referred to as Millian efficiency, to evaluate the performance of symmetric allocations in an...