During the last decade, unemployment rates in the European Union have been higher than in other regions, e.g., the United States, and these are even higher in Spain. It has been argued that the different degrees of labour mobility between the European and the American labour markets can account...

Este artículo analiza las decisiones de los jóvenes españoles entre estudiar y trabajar haciendo especial énfasis en la influencia del Salario Mínimo Interprofesional (SMI) y la capacidad de financiación de los gastos educativos entre otros factores. Los datos usados provienen del primer...

Equal treatment for men and women is an important objective of labour policy in the European Union, largely because there is ample evidence of gender discrimination in the wages of men and women, which are on an average higher for male workers. Research on male‐female wage differentials...

Purpose – One of the major contributions of the literature on human capital has been to demonstrate the role of schooling as a determinant of wages. However, the exact size of the effect on wages and how it should be estimated remain a source of both theoretical and empirical debate. This...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to approach a new aspect of the assimilation of immigrants in Spain. In particular, it is analyzed the effect of the type of contract on immigrant wages. The data used in this analysis come from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey, which was conducted...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed knowledge about the relationship between the inter-firm job mobility and the occupational transitions in Spain during the last years. In particular, it is tested whether if the type of job-to-job mobility (voluntary or involuntary) has some...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to offer new empirical evidence for Spain about the transition into self‐employment or paid employment of potential entrants to the labor market and their duration in both segments of the market. Design/methodology/approach – The econometric methodology...