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This paper evaluates Spain's recent labour market reform concerning the reduction in severance pay from 45 to 33 days of wages per year of seniority and the introduction of a new subsidized permanent contract. We also compare this policy with the introduction of a single open-ended labour...
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En este capítulo analizamos el aprendizaje del francés como lengua extranjera de los alumnos de España a partir de los datos del Estudio Europeo de Competencia Lingüística (EECL de aquí en adelante). En España, la Ley Orgánica de Educación establece que los alumnos deben cursar...
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The analys is of how the economic crisis in Europe has reshaped migration flows faces two challenges: (i)the confounding influence of correlated changes in the attractiveness of alternative destinations, and (ii)the role of rapidly changing expectations about the evolution of the economic...
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Estudiamos el efecto de pruebas estandarizadas externas sobre los resultados académicos de los estudiantes. Explotamos el hecho de que sólo una de las 17 regiones españolas empezó realizando y publicando los resultados de las pruebas estandarizadas en 2005 para aplicar una metodología de...
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In this work, we analyse from a theoretical perspective the efficiency of an ad valorem and a lump sum subsidy for resident passengers. In particular, we consider passengers with high and low willingness to pay that may be residents in a given area (and therefore entitled to a subsidy). All...
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This paper explores the properties of several notions of efficiency (A−efficiency, P−efficiency and Millian efficiency) to evaluate allocations in a general overlapping generations setting with endogenous fertility and descendant altruism that includes, as a particular case, Barro and...
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We survey a number of papers that have focused on the construction of cross-country data sets on average years of schooling. We discuss the construction of the different series, compare their profiles and construct indicators of their information content. The discussion focuses on a sample of...
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In this work we combine wage data from Social Security working histories and health information available in the Survey of Health and Retirement in Europe to explore the link between health, financial incentives and retirement in Spain. Our results show that individuals in worse health quintiles...
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Estimamos los efectos de pares relacionados con el género en las escuelas explotando las diferencias en la composición de género entre cohortes de edad. Nuestro enfoque difiere de la literatura existente la cual se basa en diferencias en la composición entre cursos escolares adyacentes....
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El Programa para la Evaluación Internacional de Alumnos (PISA) realizado por la OCDE en los últimos diez años revela que las chicas de 15-16 años presentan un peor (mejor) desempeño que los chicos en matemáticas (lectura) en la mayoría de los países que participan en el programa de...
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