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Skill premium effects on fertility and female labor force supply
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2002)
In the last twenty years the United States has seen a positive relationship between female labor supply and total fertility rates, which differs from the pattern observed over the preceding years. We construct a general ...
Career Planning in Spain: Do temporary contracts delay marriage and motherhood?
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2003-04)
The aim of this paper is to find an empirical connection between the impressive increase in the use of temporary contracts in Spain and the observed increase in age at marriage and maternity. Using a pool of the six available ...
Life Expectancy, Human Capital, Social Security and Growth
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2005)
We analyze the effects of changes in the mortality rate upon life expectancy, education, retirement age, human capital and growth in the presence of social security. We build a vintage growth, overlapping generations model ...
Timing of Wage Setting when Firms Invest in R&D
(2003-12)
In this paper, we analyze the effect that the timing of wage setting (i. e. whether wages set sequentially or simultaneously) has on the investment in R&D of firms, when that investment increases the productivity of labor, ...
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 ...
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 ...