ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

 

1.      Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence

       from a Randomized Trial in the U.S. 

       American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (forthcoming).

Press coverage in Nada es Gratis:  See comment by Antonio Cabrales, 10th May, 2010.

 

2.      Mentoring, Educational Services, and Financial Incentives: What Do We Know about Them?

Accepted pending minor revisions: Evaluation and Program Planning

3.       Moroccans’ Assimilation in Spain: Family-Based versus Labor-Based Migration  with Raquel Vegas.

       Middle East Development Journal (forthcoming).

 

4.       Determinants of Immigrant’s Cash-Welfare Benefit Intake in Spain.”

International Journal of Manpower (forthcoming).  Special issue on “Migration, the Welfare

State, and European Labor Markets”.

 

5.      The Part-Time Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market” with Daniel Fernández-Kranz.

            Labour Economics (forthcoming).  Available on line January 14th, 2011.

     Press coverage: El Economista, November 7th, 2009; and La Vanguardia, April 23rd, 2010.

 

6.      Channels through which Public Employment Services and Small-Business Assistance Programs

     Work.”  Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 72, No. 4, 458-485, 2010.

Press coverage: UAB Divulga, July 2011.

 

7.      Evaluating Active Labor Markets in Romania” with Jacob Benus.

          Empirical Economics, Volume 38, Issue 1, 65-84, 2010.

 

8.      A Signaling Model of Temporary Layoff.

  Oxford Economic Papers, Volume 61, No. 3, 566-585, 2009.

Press coverage: UAB Divulga, December 2009.

 

 

ACADEMIC WORKING PAPERS

 

 

9.      The Motherhood Dip: Evidence from Spainp” with Daniel Fernández-Kranz

       and Aitor Lacuesta.

       Revise and Resubmit: Journal of Human Resources.

IZA discussion paper No. 5403, December, 2010 (most recent version: December 2010).

Press coverage:  El País, December 5th, 2010.  

 

10.      Part-Time Status, Fixed-Term Contracts, and the Returns to Experience” with Daniel

Fernández-Kranz and Marie Paul.

Submitted.

IZA discussion paper No. 5815, June 2011.

 

11.  Displacement, Signaling, and Recall Expectations. 

       Submitted.

              IZA discussion paper No. 1009, February 2004 (most recent version: April 2011).

 

12.     Occupational Assimilation After a Recent and Unprecedented Immigration Boom” with

       Miguel Angel Alcobendas.  Submitted.

IZA discussion paper No. 4394, September 2009 (most recent version: December 2010).

 

13.   Unintended Effects of a Family-Friendly Law” with Daniel Fernández-Kranz.

       Under revision.  To be submitted to an academic journal in the fall .

       IZA discussion paper No. 5709, May, 2011.

 

14.  Childcare, Maternal Employment, and Persistence: A Natural Experiment from Spain     with

Natalia Nollenberger.  Submitted.

 

15.  Mentoring, Education, and Economic Incentives.  Longer-Term Evidence on Risky Behaviors

from a Randomized Trial.” 

IZA discussion paper No. 4968, May 2010.

 

16.                             Distributional Effects of the Minimum Wage Increase: Evidence from California.      

       Third chapter of the Ph.D. dissertation, July 1998.

 

 

 

 

NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

 

Books and Chapters

                                     

1.        “¿Por Qué No es Posible Flexibilizar el Mercado Laboral Español a Través del Contrato a

       Tiempo Parcial?” with Daniel Fernandéz-Kranz.  eBook: Propuesta para la reactivación laboral en España (Fundación Fedea).  January 14th, 2010.

 

2.        “El Contrato a Tiempo Parcial en España” with Daniel Fernández-Kranz.

Papeles de Economía  Número 124, 2010.

                 Press coverage:  Expansión, July 23rd, 2010.

 

3.        “Metodología para el Diseño e Implementación de Estudios de Evaluación de Políticas

                 Sociales.” Chapter 3 in Metodología para el Diseño e Implementación de Estudios de

                 Evaluación de Políticas Públicas, Editorial Bosch, 2009.

 

4.        “Diseño de la Evaluación de la Efectividad de las Políticas Activas de Ocupación en

                 Rumania.”  Chapter 4 in Metodología para el Diseño e Implementación de

                 Estudios de Evaluación de Políticas Públicas, Editorial Bosch, 2009.

    

5.      Does Inclusion Pay? Evaluating Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Active Social Policy and

Active Labor Market Policy on Inclusion. Chapter on Spain.  Ministry of Labor of Finland, November 2006.

 

6.        Pressupostos de Gènere.  Eines 3.  Editor: Generalitat de Catalunya, Institut Català de la

      Dona, Barcelona, February 2006.

 

7.        “Workers’ Recall Expectations and their Implications for Worker Profiling.”

Workforce Security Research Conference Paper Proceedings, 2001.

 

 

Popular Press and Media

                              

                   Más Guardiolas

                         La Vanguardia, Octubre 6th, 2011

 

                   Las Políticas Activas de Ocupación a Estudio

                         UAB Divulga, July 2011.

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                  ¿Nixon o Penélope?

                         La Vanguardia, November 5th, 2010.

                        

                  “Expats” I Nous Emigrants

                         Valor Afegit, Canal 33, October 27th, 2010.

                   http://www.tv3.cat/videos/3177230/Expats-i-nous-emigrants

 

                  Expatriats per la Crisi

The news on TV3, June 14th, 2010.

http://www.tv3.cat/videos/2964850/Expatriats-per-la-crisi

 

                  España aún Es Diferente

        La Vanguardia, April 23rd, 2010 Co-authored with Daniel Fernandéz-Kranz.

 

Canvi de Rumb

       Magazine Presència, weekend magazine of the following newspapers: El Punt, El 9 Nou,

       Diari d’Andorra i Diari de Balears.    February 14th, 2010 – Author: Anna Aguilar.

 

Reforma Laboral y Cambio de Modelo

       La Vanguardia, February 11th , 2010

      

¿Flexibilizar el Mercado Laboral con el Contrato a Tiempo Parcial?             

                    El Economista, November 7th, 2009  Co-authored with Daniel Fernández-Kranz.

 

            El Paro como Señal Positiva de Productividad

                   UAB Divulga, December 2009