Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reform

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Publicado: 02 Mayo 2018

Capperalli, L. and Di Paolo, A. (2018): Bilingual schooling and earnings: Evidence from a language-in-education reform, Economics of Education Review, 64, 90-101.

Abstract

We estimate the wage effects of bilingual education for the first time using a reform that introduced bilingualism in Catalan schools. Variation across years of schooling and birth cohorts provides identification. We find substantial effects of bilingual education, which increases baseline returns to education by about 20%. Robustness checks show that effects stem from exposure to the language-in-education reform and are neither a consequence of unobservable determinants of educational attainment nor an artifact of education-cohort specific trends in wages. The reform was mostly beneficial for individuals of non-Catalan background from low parental background, thus achieving its goal of leveling the playing field in a bilingual society.

Understanding intergenerational transmission of deprivation in Spain: Education and marital sorting

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Publicado: 03 Abril 2018

Davia, M. Á. and Legazpe, N. (2017): Understanding intergenerational transmission of deprivation in Spain: Education and marital sorting, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 52, 1-14

 

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This paper contributes to the literature on intergenerational transmission of deprivation in Spain by exploring how this phenomenon is shaped by education and marital homogamy. To that aim, a set of univariate, bivariate and trivariate ordered probit models are estimated on a sample of Spanish-born individuals from the module on intergenerational transmission of disadvantages in the Spanish Survey on Living Conditions 2011. We split the sample into two age groups (30–39 and 40–49-year-olds), and find similar levels of intergenerational transmission of deprivation amongst younger cohorts despite their higher educational mobility. Education is more relevant as a channel for the transmission of disadvantages across generations in the younger subsample than in the elder one. Marital sorting has a more relevant impact on the transmission of social disadvantage in the younger group. Finally, in the elder subsample, there seems to be a more genuine (beyond the observed transmission channels) transmission of (dis-)advantage, while in the younger subsample, the observed transmission channels seem to fully explain the inheritance of the risk for material deprivation

Keywords: Intergenerational transmission of deprivation European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions Spain Marital sorting Educational expansion Trivariate ordered probit models

The Cycle of Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Spanish Social Security Data

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Publicado: 03 Abril 2018

Bonhomme, S. and Hospido, L. (2017): The Cycle of Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Spanish Social Security Data, The Economic Journal, 127, 1244-1278

 

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We use detailed information from social security records to document the evolution of male earnings inequality and employment in Spain from 1988 to 2010. We find that inequality was strongly countercyclical: it increased around the 1993 recession, experienced a substantial decrease during the 1997–2007 expansion and then a sharp increase during the recent recession. This evolution went in parallel with the cyclicality of employment in the lower middle part of the wage distribution. Our findings highlight the importance of the housing boom and bust in this evolution, suggesting that demand shocks in the construction sector had large effects on aggregate labour market outcomes.

The effect of permanent employment on absenteeism: Evidence from labor reform in Spain

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Publicado: 05 Marzo 2018

García-Mainar, I., Green, C.P. and Navarro-Paniagua, M. (2018): The effect of permanent employment on absenteeism: Evidence from labor reform in Spain, ILR Review, 71 (2), 525-549. 

Abstract

Restrictive employment protection legislation has been highlighted as a key reason for lower labor productivity in Europe compared to the United States. Evidence in the literature has shown robust effects of employment protection on effort, though the effects appear too small to generate marked cross-country differences in labor productivity. The authors revisit this issue using representative data of private-sector workers in Spain. A range of legislative changes aimed at reducing the incidence of temporary employment are used to estimate the effect of permanent employment on one aspect of effort, absenteeism. Results suggest that being employed on a permanent contract increases the probability of being absent from work due to sickness by approximately 5.3 percentage points and the time absent by approximately 0.30 of a day per week. These results suggest that cross-country differences in employment protection have the potential to have a substantial impact on labor productivity.

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