Ángel Martín-RománUniversidad de Valladolid | UVA · Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico e Historia e Instituciones Económicas
Ángel Martín-Román
PhD in Economics
President of the Spanish Association of Labour Economics
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Introduction
INTERESTS
• Labor Economics
• Health Economics
• Urban and Regional Economics
• Law and Economics
• Socioeconomics
METHODS
· Game Theory
· Microeconometrics
· Macroeconometrics
Additional affiliations
June 2019 - June 2021
Spanish Association of Labour Economics
Position
- President
October 1994 - present
Education
October 1994 - June 2000
October 1989 - September 1994
Publications
Publications (74)
The cost of duration moral hazard in workplace accident insurance has been amply explored by North-American scholars. Given the current context of financial constraints in public accounts, and particularly in the Social Security system, we feel that the issue merits inquiry in the case of Spain. The present research posits a methodological proposal...
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Collective bargaining between a trade union and a firm is analyzed within the framework of a monopoly union model as a dynamic Stackelberg game. Adjustment costs for the firm are comprised of the standard symmetric convex costs plus a wage-dependent element. Indeed, hiring costs can turn into benefits assuming wage discrimination against new entran...
This research establishes a significant relationship between the share of self-employment in total employment and the Okun's coefficient, which had been insufficiently addressed in the literature. We provide evidence on the determinants driving the differences in the unemployment–output relationship in Spanish regions and conclude that the differen...
The relationship between labor force participation and the business cycle is a common topic in economic literature. However, few studies have examined if the cyclical sensitivity of labor force participation is influenced by social effects. In this paper, we construct a theoretical model defining a relatively new hypothesis, the Bandwagon Worker Ef...
This paper identifies and analyses a new effect related to the cyclical behaviour of labour supply: the Entitled-Worker Effect (EWE). This effect is different from the well-known Added-Worker Effect (AWE) and Discouraged-Worker Effect (DWE). The EWE is a consequence of one of the most important labour institutions: the unemployment benefit (UB). We...
This research explores the long-term equilibrium relationship between unemployment and labour force participation rates for six selected countries in Latin America at both aggregate and gender-disaggregated levels. Cointegration analysis focused on the study of time series is used to validate the unemployment invariance hypothesis and explore added...
The aim of this article is to present empirical evidence on the use of parental leave by fathers under the Mediterranean Welfare State, as a Spanish tribute to the legacy of Dr Rush in politics of fatherhood in a comparative perspective. We will focus on the Spanish case to analyze the use of paternity leave by fathers for the period 2001–2017. We...
Official statistics indicated a break in Okun's law in all the Spanish regions due to the COVID-19 pandemic; however, herein, evidence of the validity of the law is shown. The temporary layoff procedures (ERTE) allowed many workers to maintain their jobs. From the productive point of view, the law remained in effect in the regions, showing a strong...
This article presents novel empirical evidence of fathers’ parental leave usage by introducing a family dimension in Spain. To test this hypothesis, a bivariate probit estimation was used to analyse the effect of the mother’s labour force participation on the father’s decision to take parental leave. This procedure allowed us to address the issue o...
This work splits effective unemployment into two components: natural unemployment, and cyclical unemployment. For that purpose, an estimation of the stochastic cost frontier is performed. The study is focused on the 17 autonomous communities in Spain over the period 1982–2012. Results evidence greater importance of the natural component as the prin...
Resumen
Las variaciones de la actividad económica tienen impactos más leves sobre el desempleo en los países latinoamericanos respecto a los más avanzados. Esto implica que las políticas que sólo tienden a estimular la actividad con objetivos también sobre el desempleo serían menos eficaces en estos países, requiriéndose políticas más focalizadas y...
This paper proposes an empirical analysis to study if the quality of judicial decisions is influenced by the number and type of judges working in the court. A set of econometric models will be estimated in order to explain the differences existing in the confirmation rate of the sentences dictated by the 339 Spanish Labour Courts taken as a sample,...
La ley de Okun se cumple en varios países latinoamericanos, independientemente del modelo utilizado, y los coeficientes estimados indican una relación más débil entre el PIB y el desempleo respecto a los países desarrollados. Por su parte, se observa un grupo de países en los que la ley no se cumple, o no se rechaza que sus valores se ubiquen muy c...
The goal of this paper is to evaluate the effects of a public policy implemented through the Spanish Social Security system: the Cessation of Activity Benefit (CAB) for self-employed workers. Making use of the Continuous Sample of Working Lives (MCVL) and by means of a Propensity Score Matching (PSM) methodology, our results show that, when we do n...
This work attempts to gauge the impact of the so-called complementary leisure effect (or shared leisure effect) on the increase in the labour force participation rates of older males who live with a partner observed in Spain since the mid-1990s. The principal novelty of the work is that the whole the period throughout which said phenomenon has been...
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Differences in regional unemployment rates, as well as their formation mechanism and persistence, have given rise to many papers in recent decades. The present work contributes to this strand of literature from two different perspectives. In the first part of our work, we follow the methodological proposal put forward by Hofler and Murphy (1989) an...
The current work seeks to ascertain whether rulings on dismissal cases issued by incumbent judges in Spanish labour courts are influenced by whether they are acting alone in their own court or sharing duties with other judges such as replacement judges, support judges or incumbent judges from other courts. We consider that a court is treated when m...
En este trabajo se lleva a cabo una evaluación del Segundo Plan Regional de Empleo de Castilla y León (SPRECyL). Para ello se utiliza la metodología expuesta en Meyer (1995), basada en el enfoque “cuasi-experimental”. Concretamente se estudian los efectos del SPRECyL sobre la tasa de ocupación y desempleo de Castilla y León durante su periodo de vi...
This article provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between the unemployment rate and the output growth in Spain at the regional level. The «gap version» with the output growth on the left-hand side of the equation is our benchmark model. Our empirical results show that all coefficients are significant and show the expected negative si...
Southern European countries have been the countries most affected by the economic crisis, and this has led to very high levels of unemployment. Although unemployment has affected all types of workers, the youth has experienced the highest increase in unemployment rates, even exceeding 30% in countries such as Portugal or Spain. Our aim in this chap...
The present research provides evidence on the determinants driving the differences in the unemployment-output relationship in Spanish regions. We followed a two-step approach. First, we estimated a set of time-varying Okun's coefficients (rolling-window) for the autonomous communities in Spain (1981-2013) showing significant regional differences as...
The Monday effect on workers’ compensation insurance shows that there is a higher proportion of hard-to-diagnose injuries the first day of the week. The aim of this paper is to test whether the physiological hypothesis or the economic explanation is more satisfactory to understand this Monday effect and, if both are correct, to obtain an estimation...
Desde mediados de los años noventa del pasado siglo la tasa de actividad de los varones
mayores (55 a 64 años) empezó a repuntar en un amplio grupo de países de la OCDE,
entre los que se encuentra España, después de un largo periodo de reducción tendencial.
Este fenómeno ha continuado manifestándose de forma clara hasta, al menos, el inicio
de la c...
La cuestión del riesgo moral asociado a los accidentes en el puesto de trabajo se ha tratado dentro de la literatura económica, especialmente norteamericana. Fortin y Lanoie (2001) reconocen hasta cinco tipos distintos de riesgo moral relativos al seguro por accidente laboral. En este trabajo se trata uno de ellos, el riesgo moral de duración que p...
This work seeks to gauge the complementarity or shared leisure effect in Spain. The study evidences the importance which the increase in female activity rates has on the decision of their male spouses to prolong their labour market participation. Thus, if active ageing is to be encouraged, vis-à-vis non-early exit from the labour force of those in...
En este artículo se analiza cómo han variado las características
de los desempleados con la última crisis, destacando los aspectos
que suponen nuevos desafíos para el sistema de
protección por desempleo (tanto contributivo como asistencial).
Se explican las aproximaciones existentes a la medición de la
tasa de cobertura y se muestra que ninguna de...
El coste del riesgo moral de duración en el seguro por accidente de trabajo ha sido un tema ampliamente abordado en el mundo académico norteamericano, tanto en Estados Unidos como en Canadá. Dada la actual situación de restricción financiera en las cuentas públicas, y especialmente en las de la Seguridad Social, pensamos que es necesario abordar es...
Work-sharing measures aim to reduce unemployment. When politicians are more interested in fostering this kind of measures is when the official unemployment rate published in statistics rises. There is already an important body of research addressing this issue, but it has mainly focused on the labour demand side. Nevertheless, it must not be forgot...
The main goal of the current work is to analyse differences between the
working conditions of national and foreign workers in Spain. For this purpose, we
study an important dimension of those working conditions, namely workplace
injuries, and more specifically the differences in duration of occupational injury
leave as a consequence of work-related...
This study uses data from the Spanish Statistics on Accidents at Work in
order to examine the relationship between absenteeism following a workplace
accident and the business cycle for self-employed workers. Studies on sickness
absenteeism among the self-employed are still scarce despite the fact that the labour
market participation of self-employe...
The aim of this paper is to deepen the relationship between the decisions of the Spanish labour courts regarding dismissals and the costs associated with the termination of employment contracts. We justify that a change in the probability that a judge rule in favour of a worker affects the effective firing costs that the employer faces. We also exa...
RESUMEN La presencia de las empresas de trabajo temporal (ETTs) en España es relativamente reciente si se compara con otros países en los cuales éstas tienen más tradición. No obstante, a pesar de su corto recorrido histórico, su funcionalidad en el mercado de trabajo ha ido variando notablemente. En este trabajo se pretende estimar el esfuerzo de...
RESUMEN
Este trabajo analiza la ley de Okun entre las comunidades autónomas de España durante el período 1981-2010. Para explicar las diferencias entre los coeficientes de Okun regionales se utiliza un panel de datos de las 17 CCAA españolas. Los diferentes test empíricos aplicados permiten obtener dos grandes resultados. En primer lugar, se verifi...
The main goal of this paper is to analyse gender differences in the Spanish workplace accident insurance or worker’s compensation (WC) system. More specifically, we are interested in understanding the differences between female and male employees in the duration of the recovery spell after a workplace accident. This will provide us with a better co...
The main goal of this paper is to analyse gender differences in the Spanish workplace accident insurance or worker's compensation (WC) system. More specifically, we are interested in understanding the differences between female and male employees in the duration of the recovery spell after a workplace accident. This will provide us with a better co...
The objective of this article is to investigate the differences in the report of hard-todiagnose injuries between Spanish and immigrant workers. We use this kind of accidents because is more common to find hidden labour absenteeism episodes in them. So it could be obtained a measure of the relative effort exercised by the immigrant workers in compa...
En España, el organismo supervisor de seguridad y salud laboral es la Inspección de Trabajo y Seguridad Social (ITSS). La ITSS es un servicio público al que corresponde ejercer la vigilancia del cumplimiento de las normas de orden social y exigir las responsabilidades correspondientes en caso de infracción o incumplimiento. Desde un punto de vista...
The issue of moral hazard associated with workplace accidents has beenstudied in economics. We investigate the ex-ante causation and report moral hazard types in Spain. The objective of this article is the comparison of these situations of moral hazard by gender, looking for reasons that allow us to explain the differences observed in them. We appl...
ABSTRACT: Recibido el 4 de febrero de 2008; aceptado el 30 de septiembre de 2008 Resumen La mera observación de los datos revela diferencias considerables en la duración de las bajas producidas por accidentes de trabajo entre las distintas Comunidades Autónomas españolas. Parte de esas diferencias pueden deberse a factores objetivos, no obstante, e...
El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en analizar las diferencias en el reporte de cierto tipo de accidentes entre la población nacional e inmigrante. Concretamente se estudiarán los accidentes conocidos dentro de la literatura como de difícil diagnóstico. El fin de utilizar este tipo de accidentes es que en ellos puede parecer más verosímil que se...
Resumen: Uno de los temas más recurrentes en el campo del absentismo laboral, y por ende dentro de la economía laboral, es la cuestión del esfuerzo en el puesto de trabajo y los factores que lo determinan. El presente trabajo investiga la diferencia de esfuerzo entre hombres y mujeres desde una perspectiva regional. Es conocido que la cuestión del...
The Regional Employment Plan of Castilla y León (PRECyL) has become as the main tool for active employment policy programmes in that region during the last years. The financial resources invested in such a plan are substantial. However there is not much research about the efficiency of that plan. This work tries to extend the knowledge on this issu...
A lo largo de los últimos años se han venido llevando a cabo abundantes estudios y publicaciones sobre el comportamiento y peculiaridades del mercado de trabajo
en Castilla y León. No obstante, no existe, según nuestro conocimiento, trabajo
alguno que haya estudiado el comportamiento de la cobertura por desempleo en
la Comunidad y las peculiaridade...
El propósito de esta investigación es analizar las variaciones cíclicas de los índices de siniestralidad laboral en España y determinar si las oscilaciones observadas en ellos tienen una causa real o simplemente varían por modificaciones en el comportamiento informador de los trabajadores a lo largo del ciclo económico. En el trabajo de Boone y van...
The changes observed on the unemployment definition in the Encuesta de Población Activa (EPA) have been a quite controversial issue. Harder requirements to be considered as an active laboring individual generate lower levels in the official rate of unemployment. This paper goes in a contrary, and it postulates that the official rates of unemploymen...
The returns to formal schooling in Spain are estimated in this paper. The main difference between this and previous papers on this subject is that, here, a distinction is made between the increase in the worker's potential maximum wage due to schooling and the actual registered increase. This difference (or underpayment) can be justified on the bas...
Cuando se estudia el mercado de trabajo español, los altos niveles de siniestralidad
laboral y la alta temporalidad del empleo son dos de los problemas que más
relevancia adquieren. Esta comunicación se puede encuadrar dentro de un tipo de
literatura, aún no muy desarrollada en España, pero que en Norteamérica se ha dedicado
al estudio de la sinies...
A partir de las nociones del trabajador añadido y del trabajador desanimado, se presentan tasas de desempleo para las mujeres de los principales países europeos teniendo en cuenta el efecto del ciclo económico sobre sus decisiones de oferta de trabajo. En primer lugar, se elabora un modelo teórico caracterizado por la consideración de un marco anal...
This paper has two purposes. Firstly, we are trying to propose a theoretical rationalization of the effects of the changes of working hours over the employment. Secondly, we are trying to propose an empirical analysis of these ideas about the employment of adolescents and young people. We analyze these two social groups because their employment is...
La relación existente entre las variaciones de la producción agregada y la tasa de paro de una economía ha dado en llamarse, dentro de la literatura económica, Ley de Okun. En este trabajo, se estiman los parámetros de la Ley de Okun para el caso español. Se presta especial atención a las diferencias existentes entre dichos parámetros al considerar...
En este trabajo se investiga el papel de las preferencias individuales en la relación entre las decisiones educativas y las de oferta de trabajo cuando el nivel de desempleo de la economía es muy alto. Suponemos un marco teórico en el que el resultado de la búsqueda de trabajo es incierto (debido a la alta tasa de paro). Además, se considera que la...
In this paper we present a differential game between a union and a firm. We assume an infinite horizon Stackelberg game in which the union plays the role of the leader while the firm is the follower. The latter decides the savings and the labour demand. The investment is equal to the capital returns that are not consumed. We also assume adjustment...
El tema que pretendemos estudiar en este trabajo es la relación existente entre dos de las principales magnitudes del mercado de trabajo de Castilla y León y del resto de España. Precisando más, el objetivo de nuestro estudio es analizar la existencia de convergencia real entre las variables del mercado de trabajo de nuestra comunidad y las del res...
RESUMEN Este trabajo analiza la evolución temporal de las tasas de actividad para diferentes grupos sociales y demográficos de la comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León y son comparadas con sus equivalentes en España para obtener algunas conclusiones relevantes de política económica. El análisis se centra en la estimación econométrica de la tendenci...
El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en analizar las diferencias en el reporte de los accidentes conocidos dentro de la literatura como de difícil diagnóstico entre la población nacional e inmigrante. El fin de utilizar este tipo de accidentes es que en ellos puede parecer más verosímil que se produzcan episodios de absentismo laboral encubierto. A...
En el presente trabajo se elabora una medida de la evolución de los riesgos laborales de las regiones españolas que no sesgada por los cambios en la composición ocupacional de la fuerza de trabajo. La correcta medición de los riesgos en el puesto de trabajo es un requisito previo para implementar una política de prevención de riesgos laborales. Sin...
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I'm particularly interested in knowing the difference in order to model collective bargaining in a dynamic setting. Any reference is welcome.
I am interested in knowing whether the “inverted-U” relationship between the degree of centralization in the collective bargaining and the unemployment rate is still valid. I am interested both in top research papers and in those ones with a more informative (less technical) aim.
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Projects
Projects (5)
El objetivo de este proyecto es recopilar trabajos académicos e informes técnicos relativos al mercado de trabajo en Castilla y León.
Este proyecto examina aspectos socioeconómicos del COVID-19 desde una perspectiva espacial en la comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León
2019-2022 Project I+D+I.
National Research, Development and Innovation Programme. Spain 2018.
The main objective of this project is to answer to those questions that emerged from a previous project. In that project we analyzed the different effects of paternal involvement on children wellbeing. In this project we will focus our attention on the study of the new family models and the new scenarios of deprivation in Spain from a comparative perspective.
Spanish title:“El bienestar infantil y la privación material ante los nuevos escenarios familiares de la precariedad en España”. BIENINFAMILI. Convocatoria 2018, Proyectos de I+D+i Retos Investigación. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades.
El objetivo principal (objetivo 1) de la presente propuesta es responder a nuevas cuestiones emergentes como resultado de un proyecto anterior en el que se analizaron los efectos diferenciales de la implicación paterna en el bienestar infantil (objetivo y subjetivo) ampliando el foco de análisis a la familia y al contexto de precariedad laboral.
