Published articles
A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation (with Juan Dolado and Juan Jimeno Serrano), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (2009)
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes less strict dismissal procedures for specific groups...
Job Auctions and Hold-Ups, Forthcoming in Labour Economics (2009)
We consider a labor market with search frictions in which firms need to invest in...
On-the-Job Search in a Matching Model with Heterogeneous Jobs and Workers (with Juan Francisco Jimeno Serrano and Juan Jose Dolado), Economic Journal (2009)
This article examines the effects of transitory skill mismatch in a matching model with heterogeneous...
Search, Mismatch and Unemployment (with Maite T. Blázquez), European Economic Review (2008)
This paper explores the efficiency of the equilibrium allocation in a matching model with heterogeneous...
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Unpublished papers
Employment Fluctuations with Downward Wage Rigidity: The Role of Worker Moral Hazard (with Jim Costain), Revise and resubmit Scandinavian Journal of Economics, special issue "Price and Wage Dynamics" (2009)
This paper studies the cyclical dynamics of Mortensen and Pissarides' (1994) model of job creation...