This article studies transitions out of unemployment for benefit recipients in Spain. We analyse the duration of unemployment, distinguishing between spells that end in recall (workers returning to the previous employer) and spells that end in exit to a new job. This distinction allows us to...

By using birth certificates for Chile and Spain we investigate differences in mother and child characteristics according to season of birth. Our findings reveal that children born in winter are more likely to have a mother who is a teenager and unmarried at date of birth. Spanish data also...

Este artículo se centra en el comportamiento laboral de la mujer en relación con la maternidad en España. Para ello se analizan las transiciones en el mercado de trabajo de las mujeres en el entorno del nacimiento de un hijo. Se realiza la estimación de modelos de duración en tiempo...

Using a large and rich data set from administrative sources, we study the effects of children on mothers’ employment and earnings in Spain. By being able to pinpoint the event of multiple births along a twenty-year panel of women’s work history, we address two methodological hurdles in this...