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Low‐wage Employment and Mobility in Spain
Author(s) -
Cuesta Maite Blázquez
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2007.00390.x
Subject(s) - endogeneity , wage , low wage , earnings , economics , distribution (mathematics) , sample (material) , order (exchange) , demographic economics , labour economics , european community , econometrics , mathematical analysis , chemistry , mathematics , accounting , finance , chromatography , international trade
. The issue of low‐wage employment has received increased interest during recent decades in many European countries. In this paper I analyse the patterns of low‐wage employment in Spain. Using a sample of Spanish workers extracted from the European Community Household Panel for the period 1995–2001, I first analyse the earnings distribution as a whole, and how low‐wage employment has evolved over the period 1995–2001. Furthermore, I examine the determinants of low‐wage employment using an analytical framework that is characterized by the ability to ac count for the endogeneity of initial conditions. Finally, I explore the effects of low pay on job mobility in Spain. For this purpose I adopt an approach based on competing risks in order to allow for different risks of failure.