The main goal of this paper is to analyse gender differences in the Spanish workplace accident insurance or worker’s compensation (WC) system. More specifically, we are interested in understanding the differences between female and male employees in the duration of the recovery spell after a...

This work seeks to gauge the <italic>complementarity</italic> or <italic>shared leisure effect</italic> in Spain. The study evidences the importance which the increase in female activity rates has on the decision of their male spouses to prolong their labour market participation. Thus, if active ageing is to be encouraged,...

La presencia de las empresas de trabajo temporal (ETTs) en España es relativamente reciente si se compara con otros países en los cuales éstas tienen más tradición. No obstante, a pesar de su corto recorrido histórico, su funcionalidad en el mercado de trabajo ha ido variando notablemente....

The cost of duration moral hazard in workplace accident insurance has been amply explored by North-American scholars in both the USA and Canada. Given the current context of financial constraints in public accounts and particularly in the Social Security system, we feel that the issue merits...

The main goal of the current work is to analyse differences between the working conditions of national and foreign workers in Spain. For this purpose, we study an important dimension of those working conditions, namely workplace injuries, and more specifically the differences in duration of...