The paper conjectures that the high unemployment of the Western economies has been
produced by the decline of the private house-rental market and the rise of home-ownership …

This paper constructs a theoretical model to study the effects on employment of the
introduction of flexible labor contracts (ie, with low firing costs), which occurred in many …

The authors have fully revised and updated part of their 1991 book-" Unemployment:
Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market"-to create a shorter, accessible …

We present an empirical model of individual migration using time‐series of cross‐sections
from the Spanish Labour Force Surveys 1987–1991. Personal characteristics not only have …

In this paper, we review the main causes of Spanish unemployment and weight them by
estimating a simple macroeconomic model using the structural VAR methodology. By using …

Foreign direct investment (FDI hereafter) has been deemed as one of the main factors
underlying the strong growth rates experienced by the Spanish economy for the last thirty …

High European equilibrium unemployment is the most important economic development in
the last fifteen years. Macroeconomists have put a lot of effort into trying to explain it. The …

State regulation of labour migration is confronted with a double paradox. First, while markets
require a policy of open borders to fulfill demands for migrant workers, the boundaries of …

I use a multinomial logit model and the Spanish Active Population Survey (EPA) for the
period 1987–1996 to study labor force transitions of temporary workers. These workers hold …

We review the different migration episodes in Spain since the beginning of the 20th century,
with special emphasis on the pieces of empirical work that have tried to identify the factors …