Articles
Employment protection and the non-linear relationship between the wage-productivity gap and unemployment (with Antonia López), Scottish Journal of Political Economy (2011)
This paper studies the relationship between the wage-productivity gap and unemployment in OECD countries during...
The unemployment volatility puzzle: The role of matching costs revisited (with Manuel Toledo), Accepted for publication in Economic Inquiry (2011)
Pissarides (2009) has argued that the standard search model with sunk fixed matching costs increases...
Flexibility at the margin and labor market volatility in OECD countries (with Hector Sala and Manuel Toledo), Accepted for publication in the Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2011)
We study the business cycle behavior of segmented labor markets with flexibility at the margin...
Oil price shocks and labor market fluctuations (with Javier Ordóñez and Hector Sala), The Energy Journal (2011)
We examine the impact of real oil price shocks on labor market flows in the...
Investment-Specific Shocks and Cyclical Fluctuations in a Frictional Labor Market (with Manuel E. Toledo), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Contributions) (2010)
This paper studies the role of investment-specific shocks as an amplification mechanism of labor market...
Unpublished Papers
Solving the two-period consumer choice model with Excel-Solver (with Angels Xabadia) (2011)
In this paper we present a classroom exercise where students can solve the basic two-period...
The Ins and Outs of Unemployment in a Two-Tier Labor Market (with Javier Vazquez) (2011)
The aim of this paper is to shed light on the analysis of the dynamics...
Labor productivity and vocational training: Evidence from Europe (2011)
In this paper we show that vocational training is an important determinant of productivity growth....
Why are so many disabled individuals not working in Spain? A job search approach (with Judit Vall) (2011)
Contrary to other disability systems in developed economies, the Spanish one allows partially disabled individuals...
Wage Effects of Non-Wage Labour Costs (with María Cervini and Xavier Ramos) (2011)
We study wage effects of two important elements of non-wage labour costs: firing costs and...
Workshop
VII Workshop in Public Policy Design: Worker flows and labor market adjustment (2011)
The economics department at the Universitat de Girona annually organizes a workshop on Public Policy...