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What's in a Name? Information on Intergenerational Mobility

It is very difficult to measure changes in economic and social mobility across generations and to make comparisons across societies. Research by Maia Guell, Jose V. Rodriguez Mora and Chris Telmer finds that surnames can...Read more...

Maia Guell, Jose V. Rodriguez Mora and Chris Telmer

February 2008

CEP discussion paper
Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative Content of Surnames

We propose an alternative method for measuring intergenerational mobility. Traditional methods based on panel data provide measurements that are scarce, difficult to compare across countries and almost impossible to get ...Read more...

Maia Guell, Jose V. Rodriguez Mora and Chris Telmer

July 2007

CEP discussion paper
Is Seniority-Based Pay Used as a Motivation Device? Evidence from Plant Level Data

In this paper we use data from industrial plants to investigate if seniority-based pay is used as a motivational device for production workers. Alternatively, seniority-based pay could simply be a wage setting rule not n...Read more...

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Jose E. Galdon-Sanchez and Maia Guell

August 2004

CentrePiece article
Women looking for work

Female unemployment rates differ widely from county to country. Ghazala Azmat, Maia Guell and Alan Manning look for the reasons that might explain this particular gender gap....Read more...

Ghazala Azmat, Maia Guell and Alan Manning

June 2004

CEP discussion paper
Gender Gaps in Unemployment Rates in OECD Countries

There is an enormous literature on gender gaps in pay and labour market participation but virtually no literature on gender gaps in unemployment rates. Although there are some countries in which there is essentially no g...Read more...

Ghazala Azmat, Maia Guell and Alan Manning

January 2004

CEP discussion paper
Fixed-Term Contracts and the Duration Distribution of Unemployment

In the mid-1980s, many European countries introduced fixed-term contracts. Since then their labor markets have become more dynamic. This paper studies the implications of such reforms for the duration distribution of une...Read more...

Maia Guell

May 2001

CEP discussion paper
Employment Protection and Unemployment in an Efficiency Wage Model

Firing costs are often blamed for unemployment. This paper investigates this well spread belief. The main points are two. First, firing costs are modelled in an efficiency wage model to capture their effects on employmen...Read more...

Maia Guell

July 2000

CEP discussion paper
Fixed-Term Contracts and Unemployment: An Efficiency Wage Analysis

During the 1980s, many European countries introduced fixed-term contracts to fight high and persistent levels of unemployment. Although these contracts have been widely used, unemployment has remained about the same afte...Read more...

Maia Guell

July 2000

CEP discussion paper
Workers' Transitions from Temporary to Permanent Employment: the Spanish Case

This paper studies the duration pattern of fixed-term contracts and the determinants of the transformation of these into permanent ones. To address this issue we estimate a duration model for temporary employment, with c...Read more...

Maia Guell and Barbara Petrongolo

January 2000