The relationship between the labor force participation and the business cycle has become a topic in the economic literature. However, few studies have considered whether the cyclical sensitivity of the labor force participation is influenced by "social effects". In this paper, we construct a...

We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days - those which are related to biological characteristics and those derived from behavioral reasons. Using the Statistics of Accidents at Work for 2011-2019, we found that women...

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 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...

El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en analizar las diferencias en el reporte de los accidentes conocidos dentro de la literatura como de difícil diagnóstico entre la población nacional e inmigrante. El fin de utilizar este tipo de accidentes es que en ellos puede parecer más verosímil que...

The changes observed on the unemployment definition in the Encuesta de Población Activa (EPA) have been a quite controversial issue. Harder requirements to be considered as an active laboring individual generate lower levels in the official rate of unemployment. This paper goes in a contrary,...

The relationship between the labor force participation and the business cycle has become a topic in the economic literature. However, few studies have considered whether the cyclical sensitivity of the labor force participation is influenced by “social effects”. In this paper, we construct a...