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Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …
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The Spanish labour market disproportionately booms in expansions and bursts in recessions; meanwhile, its regions' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To examine this twofold feature, we apply Blanchard and Katz's...
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This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three paradigmatic economic games: the dictator (DG), ultimatum (UG), and trust (TG) games. A large carefully designed sample of a Spanish urban adult population (N=766) is employed. From...
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Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values. This behavior suggests that immigrants are sophisticated economic optimizers who take advantage of opportunities to invest trans-nationally given the networks that immigrants are...
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of immigrants in Spain, we find that permanent residents from the EU15 enjoy the highest homeownership rates, even after …
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We study the effects of terrorism in Spain on birth outcomes, focusing on terrorism perpetrated by ETA, combining … registry of live births in Spain, elaborated by the Spanish Statistical Institute (INE). We focus on live births conceived …
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This paper assesses how new immigrants to Spain fare in the country's labor market, evaluating the conditions under … immigrants who arrived in Spain between 2000 and 2007 were able to find work and eventually move out of the low-skilled positions … shed low- and middle-skilled jobs in sectors dominated by immigrants. In the long term, Spain will likely need immigrants …
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and working career in Spain, where changes in female behavior with respect to the labor market have been relatively recent … that family plays a crucial role as a source of gender differences in the labor market in Spain. By 2008, children are the …
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We study the effect of the cycle on the health of newborn babies using 30 years of birth-certificate data for Spain. We …
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The purpose of this paper of this paper is to explore the immigration and productivity in Spain. We estimate the effect … of immigration on labor productivity from 2004 until 2008 for Spain. Using firms (SABI) and individuals data (Social …
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