En este artículo se analiza desde un punto de vista teórico y en el marco de un modelo de búsqueda, los efectos ambiguos del acceso a mejores ofertas salariales sobre la probabilidad final de que un individuo acepte un empleo. A fin de superar dicha ambigüedad analizamos los efectos sobre el...

Global warming, intermittent production, and efficient use of energy require adequate demand response policies. The price inelasticity of electricity demand represents the main obstacle for developing adequate measures. A potential source of demand inelasticity is the temperature effect ‐the...

This paper studies the relation between labour market institutions and educational systems and how this relation may affect youth unemployment rates. By constructing a signalling model in which education can be used as a signal of workers’ unobserved productivity and firms face firing costs,...

The main consistent conclusions of the empirical literature about the effects of minimum wages are threefold. First, there exists evidence about the negative employment effects of minimum wages, notably for the least-skilled groups. Secondly, after an increase in minimum wage, the probability...

type="main" <p>European countries currently have segmented labour markets with flexible but insecure –“flexirisky” – jobs, resulting in significant inequality between different categories of workers. Part-time jobs are one example: their flexibility may help workers reconcile work and...</p>

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar los efectos derivados de la existencia de imperfecciones en los mercados de deuda sobre la evolución del capital productivo de las empresas. La aportación principal del artículo es la presentación de un método para contrastar la existencia de...

En este artículo se pretende delimitar con la mayor exactitud posible el empleo que genera el sector medioambiental en la economía madrileña. Para poder evaluar la evolución del empleo y su tendencia seguimos la metodología propuesta por el informe «Links between the environment, economy...

The existence of a universal minimum wage has been, and continues to be, an intensely debated issue. On the one hand, the controversy surrounding a minimum wage appears to be partly justified because the effects of the introduction and increase of a minimum wage may differ greatly depending on...