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A personal bankruptcy law that allows for a "fresh start" after bankruptcy reduces the individual risk involved in entrepreneurial activity. On the other hand, as risk shifts to creditors who recover less of their credit after a debtor's bankruptcy, lenders may charge higher interest rates or...
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of immigration on native workers. Instead, using data from Spain, where the immigrant population has risen from 4 percent …
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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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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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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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We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over …
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The first objective of our paper is to identify the determinants of income satisfaction in Spain, with one of these …
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This paper evaluates the impact of agency work on temporary workers’ posterior likelihood of being hired on a permanent basis. We use administrative data on two groups of temporary workers for whom we have complete work histories since they are first observed in 1998 until the year 2004. One...
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