Firing the wrong workers
Andrea Caggese, Vicente Cuñat and Daniel Metzger study how financing constraints affect the firing decisions of firms.
Topic Archive: Labor Economics
Video: Dynamic Modeling of Labor Market Mobility and Human Capital Accumulation (ERC Starting Grant)
Joan Llull discusses his ERC Starting Grant project in this short video.
Should fathers be more involved in childrearing?
Lídia Farré and Libertad González analyze the effect of the introduction of a paternity leave allowance in Spain on households’ labor market and fertility decisions.
Wages: does it matter where you work?
David Card, Ana Rute Cardoso, Joerg Heining, and Patrick Kline portray two lines in the literature on factors at the firm level that drive wage inequality
Unemployment and intimate-partner violence
Ana Tur-Prats shows that men with traditional views about the appropriate roles of women and men use violence to redress their masculine identity as breadwinners.
Summer reading: VoxEU roundup
Researchers in the Barcelona GSE community have written several widely-read articles on CEPR’s policy portal, VoxEU.
