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The effect of firm-level contracts on the structure of wages: evidence from matched employer-employee data
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2004-10)
In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are automatically extended to cover all firms in an industry. Employers and employees can also negotiate firm-specific contracts. We use a ...
Economic Growth and Electricity Consumption in 12 European Countries: A Causality Analysis Using Panel Data
(2008)
We apply recent panel methodology to investigate the relationship between electricity consumption and real GDP for a set of 12 European Union countries using annual data for the period 1970-2004. Recently developed tests ...
Basque inshore skippers' long term behaviour: a logit approach
(EDP Sciences, 2008)
Based on the discrete optimal choice theory and a random utility model (RUM) framework, this paper focuses on the firm's long-term choices.A behavioural study on the stay and exit decisions of the fishing firms belonging ...
Electricity consumption and economic growth: evidence from Spain
(2007-01)
The paper investigates both linear and nonlinear causality between electricity consumption and economic growth in Spain for the period 1971-2005. We use the methodology of Toda and Yamamoto (1995) and Dolado and Lütkepohl ...
Reconstructing Chi-squared Intra-table Distances in the Analysis of a Set of Contingency Tables
(2007-07)
To study similarities among the set of rows -and columns- of a contingency table, Correspondence Analysis uses chi-squared distances between row profiles -and column profiles- of that table. This article presents a factor ...
Does Immigration Raise Natives’ Income? National and Regional Evidence from Spain
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2008-04)
How immigration affects the labor market of the host country is a topic of major concern for many immigrant-receiving nations. Spain is no exception following the rapid increase in immigrant flows experienced over the past ...
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 ...
Fishing effort validation and substitution possibilities among components: the case study of the VIII division European anchovy fishery
(Routledge. Taylor & Francis, 2003)
Command and control regulation programs, particularly input constraints, typically
fail to achieve stated objectives, because fishermen may substitute unregulated for
regulated inputs. It is, thus, essential to have an ...
Institutional designs to face the dark side of total allowable catches
(Oxford Journals, 2007)
Setting total allowable catches (TACs) is an endogenous process in which different agents and institutions, often with conflicting interests and opportunistic behaviour, try to influence policy-makers. Such policy-makers, ...