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Ceilings and Floors? Gender Wage Gaps by Education in Spain
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005)
This paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain using individual data from the ECHP (1999). Quantile regressions are used to estimate the wage returns to the different ...
Labor Market Assimilation of Recent Immigrants in Spain
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2006-01)
This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the employment and occupational assimilation of recent immigrant waves to the Spanish labor market as their residencies lengthen. Using Spanish data from the 2001 Population ...
Analysis of volatility transmissions in integrated and interconnected markets: The case of the Iberian and French markets
(2012)
This paper models the mean and volatility spillovers of prices within the integrated Iberian and the interconnected Spanish and French electricity markets. Using the constant (CCC) and dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) ...
The impact of the great recession on employment polarization in Spain
(Springer International Publishing, 2014-08)
This article analyzes changes in the occupational employment share in Spain for the period 1997-2012 and the way particular sociodemographic groups adapt to those changes. There seems to be clear evidence of employment ...
Assesing the impact of public policies on labor market and poverty
(2017-12-19)
This PhD thesis evaluates the direct and indirect effects of two economic policies. The aim of the first chapter is to evaluate the family friendly law (Act 39/99) approved in Spain in 1999, which grants parents the right ...
An empirical comparison of the performance of alternative option pricing models
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002)
This paper presents a comparison of alternative option pricing models based neither on jump-diffusion nor stochastic volatility data generating processes. We assume either a smooth volatility function of some previously ...
Consumer Confidence and Yield Spreads in Europe
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-02)
This paper shows the extraordinary capacity of yield spreads to anticipate consumption growth as proxy by the Economic Sentiment Indicator elaborated by the European Commission in order to predict turning points in business ...
Are Bar Associations Anticompetitive? An Empirical Analysis of Recommended Prices for Legal Services in Spain
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012)
The European Commission Report on Competition in Professional Services found that recommended prices by professional bodies have a significant negative effect on competition since they may facilitate the coordination of ...
Reform of Spain's profesional services market: Implementation of the EU Services Directive
(FUNCAS, 2014-07)
The implementation of the European Commission Services Directive initiated the modernization process of services markets within the European Union. The objective was to guarantee the creation of a single market by ensuring ...
A note on bargaining power and managerial delegation in multimarket oligopolies
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012-11)
In a two-stage delegation game model with Nash bargaining between a manager and an owner, an equivalence result is found between this game and Fershtman and Judd's strategic delegation game (Fershtman and Judd, 1987). ...