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  • 2023/04: Job competition in civil servant public examinations and sick leave behavior

    Grace Armijos Bravo, Judit Vall Castelló

    In several countries the entry system to access public service positions is the traditional public examination procedure. In this setting, candidates have to take passing exams that require a huge load of material to study, and therefore time. Candidates who are working while preparing the public exam may find it...

    Info IEB. Parental Responses to Children’s Differences in Innate Conditions: Are Parents Inequality-Averse? Number 42. December 2022

    Lifetime inequality is due to multiple factors, including the environment where individuals grow and innate differences, such as differences in health at birth or simply in genes. A large strand of literature in economics and psychology demonstrates the importance of characteristics shaped in childhood in determining later-life success. Crucially, this...

    2022/07: Income insecurity and mental health in pandemic times

    Dirk Foremny, Pilar Sorribas-Navarro, Judit Vall Castelló

    This paper provides novel evidence of the mental health effects of the Covid-19 outbreak. Between April 2020 and April 2022, we run four waves of a large representative survey in Spain, which we benchmark against a decade of pre-pandemic data. We document a large and sudden deterioration of mental health...

    2022/06: The short-term impact of the minimum wage on employment: Evidence from Spain

    Pablo Fernández-Baldor Laporta

    Minimum wages have been widely discussed in the literature. The minimum wage impact on employment strongly depends on labor market concentration and the point at which it is located in the income distribution. Therefore, its study essentially involves exploring whether it has been set too far, beyond the competitive market...

    IEB Report 2/2022: The Gender Dimension During the Pandemic

    La dimensión de género durante la pandemia

    The COVID-19 pandemic unleashed a health and economic catastrophe in most countries across the globe. The rapid spread of the virus, the inability of many health systems to fully meet the demand for health services, and the steps taken to restrict economic activity and social mobility showed just how unprepared...

    Info IEB. Budget Practices of Spain’s Autonomous Communities. Number 41. June 2022

    Spain is a decentralized country as far as government spending is concerned, operating a system in which its regions or autonomous communities play a particularly relevant role – administering roughly a third of total public expenditure – and where their fiscal outcomes have a significant impact on general fiscal policy...