The relative rise of wages for high-skilled workers over the last three decades has been the subject of intense academic and popular scrutiny. This paper develops a new methodology for decomposing wage changes into three sources: outsourcing, biased technological change, and total biased...

The telecommunications industry is usually among the most concentrated of the economy. Nevertheless, mergers and acquisitions are quite common in the industry since the late 1990's and they seem to pick up after the burst of the telecoms bubble. Will this trend towards concentration last into...

This paper provides an empirical assessment of the broadband policy of the European Union. In particular, we assess in more detail the effects of mandatory local loop unbundling on several market dimensions. We find that it has benefited broadband adoption through significant quality...

In order to assess the effects of increased outsourcing on the relative demand for skilled and unskilled labor, it is crucial to understand whether outsourcing is a complement or a substitute for each kind of labor. Using the traditionally employed log-log framework, Amiti and Wei (2006) find...

This paper provides a review of the telecommunications policy of the European Union. We discuss the motivations for the Commission's regulatory choices and provide some evidence on their performance. We find that the outcome of the first regulatory period varied significantly between member...

How important are nontradable goods and distribution costs to explain real exchange rate dynamics? We answer this question by estimating a general equilibrium model with intermediate and final tradable and nontradable goods. We obtain reasonable estimated parameter values using Bayesian methods,...

This paper investigates the employment of individuals older than 55 years old using a dataset for Catalonia. We pin down the groups of individuals associated with lower employment rates: females, disabled and people with low qualifications. Part-time work rates for this age group are low,...

This paper considers whether offshoring has been a contributing factor to the increase in the wage gap between lower and higher skilled workers. It shows that offshoring was not a driver of the increasing skills premium in the United Kingdom between 1992 and 2004. On the contrary, the wage gap...

This paper considers whether offshoring has been a contributing factor to the increase in the wage gap between lower and higher skilled workers. It shows that offshoring was not a driver of the increasing skills premium in the United Kingdom between 1992 and 2004. On the contrary, the wage gap...

This paper studies the relationship between parental employment and time with children in Spain. We find large differences across genders in basic primary and secondary childcare, but not in quality primary childcare. The analysis shows no significant differences in quality primary childcare...