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Strategic Behavior and Collusion: An Application to the Spanish Electricity Market
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005)
The paper has two major contributions to the theory of repeated games. First, we build a supergame oligopoly model where firms compete in supply functions, we show how collusion sustainability is affected by the presence ...
A note on collusion sustainability with optimal punishments and detection lags
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2008-09)
In this note we characterize optimal punishments with detection lags when the market consists of n oligopolistic firms. We extend a previous note by Colombo and Labrecciosa (2006) [Colombo, L., and Labrecciosa, P., 2006. ...
Wage differentials between permanent and temporary workers: Firm and occupational segregation
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2003)
The main issue of this paper is to measure the impact of segregation of workers with fixed-term contracts into low-paying firms and low-paying occupations within the same firm to explain wage gaps between these workers and ...
The Impact of Firm Level Contracting on Wage Levels and Inequality: Spain 1995-2002
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2007-11)
This paper provides microeconomic evidence on the variation over time of the firm-specific wage premium in Spain from 1995 to 2002, and its impact on wage inequality. We make use of two waves of a detailed linked ...
Immigrants Responsiveness to Labor Market Conditions
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-05)
Using data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey (Encuesta de Población Activa) from 1999 through 2004, we explore the role of regional employment opportunities in explaining the increasing immigrant flows of recent years ...
The Impact of Gender Segregation on Male-Female Wage Differentials
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005-09)
This paper presents new evidence on the role of gender segregation and pay structure in explaining gender wage differentials of full-time salaried workers in Spain. Data from the 1995 and 2002 Wage Structure Surveys reveal ...
Wage differentials between Permanent and Temporal Contracts: Further Evidence
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002-02)
The main objective of this paper is to estimate wage differentials between permanent and temporal workers for different qualification levels and decompose such differentials to see which factors contribute more to explain ...
Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap: The effect of firms, occupations and Job Stratification
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002)
This paper presents new evidence on the role of segregation into firms, occupations within a firm and stratification into professional categories within firm-occupations in explaining the gender wage gap. I use a generalized ...
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 ...