Research
Work in progress
Does Dual Vocational Education Pay Off? (Co-authors: Samuel Bentolila and Antonio Cabrales) LATEST DRAFT (under review)
The Labor Market Returns to Dual Vocational Education (Co-authors: Samuel Bentolila and Caterina Calsamiglia)
Why Research Does (Not) Affect Policy: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Political Bias (Co-authors: with Jorge García Hombrados, Berkay Ozcan, Pedro Rey-Biel and Toni Roldán) COMING SOON
The Effects of a Large Minimum Wage Hike: Firm-Level Evidence for Spain (Co-authors Jorge Casanova, Florentino Felgueroso and David Catalán) COMING SOON
Journal publications
Lost in Recessions: Youth Employment and Earnings in Spain (Co-authors) Samuel Bentolila, Florentino Felgueroso, Juan-Francisco Jimeno), SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association (2021), https://doi.org/10.1007/s13209-021-00244-6
When Credit Dries Up: Job Losses in the Great Recession (Co-authors: Samuel Bentolila, Gabriel Jiménez), Journal of the European Economic Association, 16(3), pp. 650-695 (June 2018)
The Surge in Short-Duration Contracts in Spain (Co-authors Florentino Felgueroso, José-Ignacio García-Pérez), De Economist, Vol. 166(4), pp. 503-534 (March 2018)
Are the Spanish Long-Term Unemployed Unemployable? (Co-authors: Samuel Bentolila and José-Ignacio García-Pérez), SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, Vol. 8(1), pp. 1-41 (February 2017)
Employment Fluctuations with Downward Wage Rigidity: The Role of Moral Hazard (Co-author: Jim Costain), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 112(4), pp. 782-811. Annual special issue on “Price and Wage Dynamics”, December 2010
Job Auctions and Hold-Ups, Labour Economics, 17(3), pp. 608-19, June 2010
On-the-Job Search in a Matching Model with Heterogeneous Workers and Firms (Co-authors: Juan J. Dolado and Juan F. Jimeno), Economic Journal, Vol. 119, pp. 200-228, January 2009
Search, Mismatch and Unemployment (Co-author: Maite Blázquez), European Economic Review, 52(3), pp. 498-526, April 2008
A Positive Analysis of Targeted Employment Protection Legislation (Co-authors: Juan J. Dolado and Juan F. Jimeno), B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Vol. 7, Issue (1) (Topics), Article 14, July 2007
Working papers
Labour Market Concentration, Wages and Job Security in Europe, IZA Discussion Papers (Co-authors: Andrea Bassanini, Giula Bovini, Eve Caroli, Jorge Casanova, Federico Cingano, Paolo Falco and Florentino Felgueroso) Revise-and-Resubmit Journal of Human Resources
The Impact of Dual Vocational Education on the Labor Market Insertion of Youth, Estudios sobre la Economía Española 2018-20. English version (link) (Co-authors: Samuel Bentolila and Antonio Cabrales)
Youth Labour Market Performance in Spain and its Determinants: A Micro-Level Perspective (joint with Juan Dolado, Florentino Felgueroso, Andres Fuentes and Anita Wölfl), OECD Economic Department Working Paper Nº 1039, March 2013 (doi: 10.1787/18151973)
Other publications
¿Qué empresas participan en la formación profesional?, Papeles de Economía Española, nº 166, pp. 94-104, 2020
La Implantación de la FP dual en España: La experiencia de Madrid (with Samuel Bentolila), Revista ICE (Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Turismo), nº 910, September-October 2019
El impacto de la FP dual sobre la inserción laboral de los jóvenes: Evidencia para la Comunidad de Madrid (with Samuel Bentolila and Antonio Cabrales), Estudios sobre la Economía Española 2018-20, Fedea
El impacto de los contratos para la formación y el aprendizaje en la inserción laboral de los jóvenes (with David Troncoso-Ponce), Estudios sobre la Economía Española 2018-27, Fedea
El Paro de Larga Duración de los Mayores de 45 años (with Samuel Bentolila and José-Ignacio García Pérez), Papeles de Economía Española, nº 156, pp. 30-46, 2018
La Contratación Temporal en España: Nuevas Tendencias, Nuevos Retos (with Florentino Felgueroso and José-Ignacio García Pérez), Papeles de Economía Española, nº 156, pp. 47-6, 2018
El Reto de la Inserción de los Desempleados de Larga Duración, Fedea Policy Papers, 2016/26
The Legacy of the Crisis: The Spanish Labour Market in the Aftermath of the Great Recession, New Skills at Work in Spain (with Sergi Jiménez-Martín and Lucía Gorjón), Fedea Documentos de Trabajo 2016/09
¿Una Nueva Era en las Políticas Activas del Mercado de Trabajo? (with Florentino Felgueroso), Revista del Ministerio de Empleo y Seguridad Social
Reforma laboral de 2012: ¿Qué sabemos sobre sus efectos y qué queda por hacer?, Fedea Policy Papers 2015/04 (with J. Ignacio García Pérez)
Assessing the Impact of Spain’s Latest Labour Market Reform (with J. Ignacio García Pérez), Spanish Economic and Financial Outlook (FUNCAS), Vol. 4(3), 2015
Salario Mínimo Interprofesional y Empleo Juvenil: ¿Necesidad de cambios? (with Alfonso Arellano), Revista ICE (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad), Nº 881, pp. 121-131, 2014
The Role of Global Value Chains during the Crisis: Evidence from Spanish and European Firms (with Aranzazu Crespo), Fedea Documentos de Trabajo, 2014-09.
Spanish Youth Unemployment: A Déjà Vu (with Juan J. Dolado and Florentino Felgueroso), Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, 48(4), 209-16, 2013
Un primer análisis económico de la Reforma Laboral de 2012 (with Samuel Bentolila), Actualidad Laboral, nº 15-16, 2012
El Conflicto entre la Demanda de Flexibilidad Laboral y la Resistencia a la Reforma del Mercado de Trabajo en España (with Juan J. Dolado and Florentino Felgueroso), Papeles de Economia Española, Nº 124, pp.84-97, July 2010
Books
Long-Term Unemployment after the Great Recession: Causes and Remedies. E-book for VoxEU (CEPR), edited jointly with Samuel Bentolila.
Book chapters
The Youth Guarantee: Theory or Reality? (with Florentino Felgueroso) in Youth Labour Market Problems in Europe, ed. Juan J. Dolado, A VoxEU book, CEPR press, 2015.
On the Effects of Targeted Employment Policies (with Juan J. Dolado and Juan F. Jimeno) in Volume VIII of Series on Central Banking, Analysis and Economic Policies: Labor Markets and Institutions (eds. Jorge E. Restrepo and Andrea Tokman), Central Bank of Chile, 2005.