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Skilled and Unskilled Employment in a Spanish Business Cycle Model

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  • Muñoz, Rafael

    (UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES))

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We analyze to what extent skill heterogeneity in the labor market with different wage formation mechanisms can explain the features of the Spanish labor market. The model assumes two types of workers with differences in skills. Skilled labor sets wages in an efficiency way while unskilled labor does it through a union. We calibrate the model with Spanish data and assess it to account for differences in the labor market among skilled and unskilled workers.

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  • Muñoz, Rafael, 1999. "Skilled and Unskilled Employment in a Spanish Business Cycle Model," LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES 1999003, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).
    • Handle: RePEc:ctl:louvir:1999003
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    Keywords

    Efficiency wage; unions; skilled-unskilled labor; business cycles;
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
    • J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects

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