Win and let win: the auction for super-star athletes
Roberto Burguet and József Sákovics provide a tractable framework for analyzing the market for sports talent.
Topic Archive: Labor Economics
Unemployment and Unions: Could Sector-Level Bargaining be to Blame?
José Ramón García and Valeri Sorolla show that the bargaining structure of southern European economies can lead to higher unemployment.
Summer reading: VoxEU Roundup 1
Researchers in the Barcelona GSE community have written several widely-read articles on CEPR’s policy portal, VoxEU.
The economic consequences of religion
Joan-Maria Esteban, Gilat Levy, and Laura Mayoral show how religiosity can have an impact on individual preferences and, thus, on labor supply.
Does unemployment lead to a decrease in mental health?
A new study by Lídia Farré, Francesco Fasani, and Hannes Mueller suggests that an increase in the unemployment rate, caused by the collapse of the Spanish construction sector, led to a drastic increase in mental disorders.
Video: Labor Market Risk and Skill Diversity (ERC Advanced Grant)
Jan Eeckhout talks about the objectives, challenges, and potential impact of his ERC Advanced Grant Project.
