Considera la estimacion de variables en ecuaciones lineales de Euler, donde los regresores puedan ser no estacionarios, y propone un procedimiento multietapico que usa informacion obtenida del pretest del orden de integracion de datos de series, para mejorar el procedimiento de especificacion y...

En este trabajo se desarrollan los argumentos de Kremer sobre el test propuesto por Hansen basado sobre los residuos de la segunda etapa de las relaciones de cointegracion estimadas a traves de Cochrane-Orcutt. Se argumenta que a pesar de las ventajas de este test, sufre del problema de la...

In order to offer a balanced assessment of the role of minimum wages in the Welfare State, seven basic questions need to be answered: (i) Why is the minimum wage a useful redistributive tool?; (ii) How binding are minimum wage floors in different countries?; (iii) To what extent do minimum wages...

This paper examines the empirical evidence regarding the poor performance of the youth labor market in Spain over the last two decades, which entails very high unemployment for both higher and lower educated workers, symptoms of over-education, and low intensity of on-the-job training. It also...

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 characteristics at the more relevant percentiles and a suitable version of the...