This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates for six selected countries in Latin America at both aggregate and gender-disaggregated levels. Cointegration analysis focused on the study of time series is used to validate...

La presencia de las empresas de trabajo temporal (ETTs) en España es relativamente reciente si se compara con otros países en los cuales éstas tienen más tradición. No obstante, a pesar de su corto recorrido histórico, su funcionalidad en el mercado de trabajo ha ido variando notablemente....

This work seeks to gauge the <italic>complementarity</italic> or <italic>shared leisure effect</italic> in Spain. The study evidences the importance which the increase in female activity rates has on the decision of their male spouses to prolong their labour market participation. Thus, if active ageing is to be encouraged,...

The main goal of this paper is to analyse gender differences in the Spanish workplace accident insurance or worker’s compensation (WC) system. More specifically, we are interested in understanding the differences between female and male employees in the duration of the recovery spell after a...