An important policy issue in recent years concerns the number of people claiming disability benefits for reasons of incapacity for work. We distinguish between ‘work disability’, which may have its roots in economic and social circumstances, and ‘health disability’ which arises from...

The present paper aims to reliably depict the impact of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) on Spain under different assumptions about the industries involved. Prior analyses, based either on highly aggregated macroeconomic or specific electricity industry models, have been...

Given the lack of women in academia, several countries have recently adopted gender quotas in hiring and promotion committees. This paper studies whether these policies may work. The identification strategy exploits the random assignment mechanism in place between 2002 and 2006 in all academic...

Una manera de evaluar el éxito de un proceso migratorio consiste en la comparación de determinados parámetros de bienestar social entre nativos e inmigrantes. El proceso de asimilación de los inmigrantes en el país receptor debe dar lugar a una reducción de las diferencias a medida que los...

En la primera parte del articulo analizamos cuales son las principales fuerzas que están detrás del proceso de envejecimiento en el que están envueltas todas las economías desarrolladas. Identificamos la esperanza de vida a partir de los 65 años como el factor determinante del proceso. En...

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar en qué medida las últimas reformas laborales implementadas en España han conseguido reducir la dualidad laboral entre trabajadores con contratos indefinidos y temporales. Nuestro análisis se centra en especial en las políticas de fomento de la...

Muchos expertos consideran el aumento registrado en las emisiones de CO2 en España desde mediados de los 90 una auténtica anomalía. Dicha anomalía podría resultar no serlo tanto cuando se relaciona la evolución de las emisiones con el boom inmobiliario. Este artículo muestra que el...

Recent pension reforms in Spain have been guided by two opposite goals, achieving financial stability and improving redistributive aspirations. In particular, reforms implemented in 1997/2002 entailed a mixture of both through (i) changes in the pension formula, (ii) the extension in the...

After the early 90s crisis, Spain had a long period of prosperity that ended abruptly with the recent global crisis. What many did not realized is that Spain, by following a different growth trajectory than a majority of the EU15 countries, was choosing a wrong detour. In this paper, we argue...

The Social Security system is Spain provides four different types of permanente disability pensions which are granted according to the severity of the disabling condition and the remaining capacity to work that is left for these individuals. Therefore, the system is designed to allow for a...