Search Results - "Güell, Maia"

Priorities in school choice: The case of the Boston mechanism in Barcelona by Calsamiglia, Caterina, Güell, Maia

“…The Boston mechanism is a school allocation procedure that is widely used around the world and has been criticized for its incentive problems. In order to…”
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Revisiting the determinants of unemployment duration: Variance decomposition à la ABS in Spain by Güell, Maia, Lafuente, Cristina

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CORRELATING SOCIAL MOBILITY AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES by Güell, Maia, Pellizzari, Michele, Pica, Giovanni, Mora, José V. Rodríguez

“…We construct comparable measures of intergenerational mobility (IM) for 103 Italian provinces using the methodology of Güell et al. (2007, 2015a) and explore…”
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How binding are legal limits? Transitions from temporary to permanent work in Spain by Güell, Maia, Petrongolo, Barbara

“…This paper studies the duration pattern of fixed-term contracts and the determinants of their conversion into permanent ones in Spain, where the share of…”
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Income contingent university loans: Policy design and an application to Spain by Cabrales, Antonio, Güell, Maia, Madera, Rocio, Viola, Analía

“…SUMMARY In Europe, the need for additional funding coming from either budget cuts and/or increased costs due to increased competition in university quality has…”
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So different yet so alike: Micro and macro labour market outcomes in Germany and Spain by Güell, Maia, Lafuente, Cristina, Sánchez, Manuel, Turon, Hélène

“…It is well known that German and Spanish labour markets are quite different from a macro point of view. In this paper, we look at these markets through the…”
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The Informational Content of Surnames, the Evolution of Intergenerational Mobility, and Assortative Mating by GÜELL, MAIA, MORA, JOSÉ V. RODRÍGUEZ, TELMER, CHRISTOPHER I.

“…We propose a new methodology for measuring intergenerational mobility in economic well-being. Our method is based on the joint distribution of surnames and…”
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NEW DIRECTIONS IN MEASURING INTERGENERATIONAL MOBILITY: INTRODUCTION by Güell, Maia, Mora, José V. Rodríguez, Solon, Gary

“…This Feature contains seven new articles that exemplify several of the cutting edges in research on intergenerational transmission of socio-economic status…”
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Gender Gaps in Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries by Azmat, Ghazala, Güell, Maia, Manning, Alan

“…In some OECD countries the male and female unemployment rates are very similar but in others (notably the Mediterranean countries) the female unemployment rate…”
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When Fertility is Bargained: Second Births in Denmark and Spain by Brodmann, S., Esping-Andersen, G., Guell, M.

“…We examine the degree to which women's fertility decisions depend on greater gender symmetry in child care. We analyse second births and focus particularly on…”
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Estimating the probability of leaving unemployment using uncompleted spells from repeated cross-section data by Güell, Maia, Hu, Luojia

“…We propose a new econometric estimation method for analyzing the probability of leaving unemployment using uncompleted spells from repeated cross-section data,…”
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Dismissal conflicts and unemployment by Galdon-Sanchez, Jose E, Guell, Maia

“…We analyse the institutional sources of dismissal conflicts when workers’ effort is not perfectly observable. We build an efficiency wage model with firing…”
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Sanctions and export deflection: evidence from Iran by Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim, Güell, Maia

“…Do export sanctions cause export deflection? Data on Iranian non-oil exporters between January 2006 and June 2011 shows that two-thirds of these exports were…”
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Monnet’s error? by Guiso, Luigi, Sapienza, Paola, Zingales, Luigi, Drugov, Mikhail, Güell, Maia

“…In entering a currency union without any political union European countries have taken a gamble: will the needs of the currency unions force a political…”
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Research assessment and recognized excellence: Simple bibliometrics for more efficient academic research evaluations by Regibeau, Pierre, Rockett, Katharine

“…Many countries perform research assessment of universities, although the methods differ widely. Significant resources are invested in these exercises. Moving…”
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The effects of fixed-term contracts on labour market performance by Guell-Rotllan, Maia

“…During the 1980's, many European countries introduced flexibility measures in their labour market to fight high and persistent levels of unemployment. In…”
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