Work in Progress
Daddy's Home? Paternity Leave and Female Labour Market Outcomes.
Recent research highlights parenthood as a key driver of gender earnings gaps, largely due to differences in male and female labor supply after childbirth. This paper examines how non-transferable paternity leave influences the motherhood wage penalty and participation over the life cycle, focusing on Spain's 2019 policy granting 16 weeks of fully paid paternity leave. I combine an empirical analysis using social security data, with a quantitative model of fertility, labor supply, and parental leave decisions, incorporating human capital accumulation and firm responses to leave policies.
So alike, yet so different: A non-parametric variance decomposition of unstable employment cycles. Joint with Maia Güell, Cristina Lafuente, Manuel Sánchez, Hélène Turon.
“What keeps you busy these days?” Fertility, labour force participation and the macroeconomy. Joint with Maia Güell
Spain has the second-lowest total fertility rate among OECD countries, at 1.3 it has been named the “lowest of low” fertility. Historically, female labour force participation has been limited and, despite a growing trend, it remains quite low and much below that of males. In this project, we investigate how women in Spain allocate their market versus household production time vis-à-vis men. Understanding this can shed light into gender differences in career trajectories and other household level outcomes. We put forward a theoretical household model in which there is bargaining over fertility and labour market participation to understand how the macroeconomy and policies aimed at gender equality and family well-being shape gender gaps in the labour market and fertility trends.
Gender Gaps in the Labour Market: Implications from a Search Model.
Despite the recent rise in women's education levels and labor force participation rates, gender gaps in the labour market remain persistent. Using individual-data from the United States, I develop and estimate a search model of unemployment, with returns to experience, an endogenous participation margin, and differences in skills. The model builds a multi-outcome framework, providing unified insights into the dynamic interaction of gender gaps in unemployment, labour force participation, wages, and labour market experience.
Legislation, Cultural Change, and Gender Differences in the Labor Market. Joint with Albert Rodríguez-Sala
How do institutions affect economic progress? How can culture foster or hinder growth? The social equilibrium among institutions, culture, and economic progress is a fundamental and particularly challenging question. In this project, we aim to shed light on this question through the study of one of the fundamental macroeconomic changes in the last century: the convergence in gender roles in the labor market.