In this paper we study how the Great Recession affected university students in terms of performance, with a special focus on the dropout probability. To do so, we use individual-level data on a representative sample of university students in Italy in 2007 and 2011. We measure the severity of the...

En varios países de la OCDE, las asociaciones empresariales y las organizaciones sindicales fijan tarifas salariales mínimas de obligado cumplimiento para todos los empleadores en la industria. Una hipótesis considera que la totalidad de los salarios en estas industrias solo cambia cuando se...

This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage and employment dynamics after the outbreak of major recessions in Spain. Downward wage rigidity stems from collective agreements, which set province-sector-skill-specific minimum wage floors for all workers. By exploiting variation...