Spain is one of the European countries where immigration flows during the last decade have increased noticeably. The Spanish labor market institutions and the Spanish immigration policy exhibit some peculiarities which may be relevant when analyzing the impact of immigration. This paper provides...

Job satisfaction is an important part of overall life satisfaction among the working age population. We examine Western Europeans’ overall job satisfaction and the satisfaction levels in several job domains using the European Community Household Panel Survey (1994-2001). With respect to...

The objective of this paper is to carry out a projection of the pension expenditures under demographic uncertainty in Spain. In order to obtain a stochastic pension expenditure projection, as well as the number of pensioners and the number of contributors, we use a stochastic population...

Usual projections of health care expenditure combine age-sex profiles of health expenditure and scenarios of population projection. However, it has been shown repeatedly that both age-sex specific health expenditures and the population structures in the future are highly uncertain and most...

Among the working age population, one of the most damaging individual experience is found to be unemployment. Many previous studies have confirmed devastating effects of unemployment on individual well-being, both pecuniary and non-pecuniary. Using the data from the European Community Household...

La práctica habitual en los estudios sobre medición de la desigualdad ha sido suponer que la información de la que se dispone corresponde a observaciones independientes e idénticamente distribuidas (iid). Sin embargo, cuando los datos provienen de encuestas realizadas mediante un...

España ha pasado en muy poco tiempo de ser un país de emigrantes a un país de inmigrantes. El flujo medio anual de entrada es este nuevo siglo es de 600.000 al año (en la actualidad la inmigración representa el 10,5% de la población total, frente al 2,2% que representaba en el año 2000)....

We document the presence of a trade-o. between unemployment benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL) in the provision of insurance against labor market risk. Di.erent countries’ locations along this trade-o. represent stable, hard to modify, politico-economic equilibria. We...

Early retirement represents a policy response to the appearance of a mass of redundant middle- aged workers, who were not entitled to a pension transfer in their old age. This policy is distortionary, since it reduces the incentive to accumulate human capital, and thus decreases economic growth....