Tipo de juez y estimación de los casos de despido: un análisis de los Juzgados de lo Social en España

“…In the second place, the Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) in Spain, as in the case of the minimum wage, exhibits no cross‐regional variation since there exists a single national regulation. Thus, in order to account for the effects of this institution, we draw on a growing literature studying the impact of judicial rulings over labor market variables and its relationship with firing costs (Gabuthy & Lambert, 2008; Goerke & Pannenberg, 2010; Jimeno et al., 2015; Martín‐Román et al., 2013). The underlying idea is that labor courts located in a specific region ruling systematically more likely in favor of employees increase firing costs for employers operating in that area.…”

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Natural and cyclical unemployment: A stochastic frontier decomposition and economic policy implications

Cuéllar‐Martín

Román

Blas

2022

Bulletin of Econ Res

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The main goal of the present work is to split effective unemployment into two components, one dealing with the natural rate of unemployment, and another with cyclical unemployment. With this purpose in mind, an estimation of stochastic cost frontiers is performed where natural unemployment is identified as a lower limit and cyclical unemployment as the deviation of effective unemployment with regard to that limit. To achieve this purpose, information is used from the 17 autonomous communities in Spain over the period spanning 1982 to 2013. Results evidence a greater importance of the natural component as the principal determinant of effective unemployment at a regional scale. The latter part of the work compares stochastic frontier estimations to those obtained when applying univariate filters, which are in widespread use in economic literature. The main conclusion to emerge is that the proposed decomposition modifies the weight distribution amongst the various types of unemployment, increasing the importance of cyclical unemployment. This finding has significant implications for economic policy, such as the existence of a greater margin for aggregate demand policies in order to reduce cyclical unemployment, particularly during growth periods.

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“…In a subsequent study (Mora, 2006), the same author, adopting a dynamic panel approach, confirms the previously reported contra-cyclical behaviour in court decisions favouring workers. A more recent study which is part of a wider-ranging analysis also estimating the contra-cyclical nature of judges' decisions in labour courts in dismissal cases is that of Martín-Román et al (2013). Said article includes some years from the recent major recession, since it analyses the period covering 2004 to 2011.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The study by Martín-Román et al (2013) reports that, on average, replacement judges tended to rule more in favour of the worker, particularly during the years of economic crisis (greater dispersion was also reported in their decisions). In the study by Martín-Román et al (2015), conducted using spatial econometrics techniques, the conclusion was that judges dealing with labour jurisdiction cases were influenced by the decisions taken by their colleagues acting in nearby courts.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The present paper thus contributes to an emerging economic literature, framed within the law and economics (L&E) and labour economics (LE), and which explores the determinants driving the decisions taken in dismissal cases by labour court judges in Spain. Relevant works related to this issue include Jimeno et al (2015), and Martín-Román et al (2013.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“Peer effects” or “quasi-peer effects” in Spanish labour court rulings

2018

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The current work seeks to ascertain whether rulings on dismissal cases issued by labour courts in Spain are influenced by whether incumbent judges 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. In the approach used, more than one judge acting in a court is considered to be a treatment, and an analysis is conducted into the effect said treatment has had on the percentage of cases in which the judge has found in favour of the dismissed worker. The data used in the research are taken from the information recorded at court level provided by the statistics kept by the General Council of the Spanish Judiciary. A total of 2,888 observations were available, corresponding to the period spanning 2004 to 2012, and the information is the result of constructing a data panel from all the labour courts in Spain. As regards the findings, the percentage of cases ruled in favour of workers increases in line with the unemployment rate. More cases are also ruled in favour of workers during the crisis and in areas where the construction and industrial sector play a greater role. With regard to treatment as the central analysis variable, it may be concluded that there is a significant positive impact on the number of dismissal cases ruled in favour of workers when incumbent judges are not acting alone in their court.JEL CODES: J65; K31; K41

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Tipo de juez y estimación de los casos de despido: un análisis de los Juzgados de lo Social en España

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Employment Protection Legislation and Labor Court Activity in Spain

Employment Protection Legislation and Labor Court Activity in Spain

Natural and cyclical unemployment: A stochastic frontier decomposition and economic policy implications

“Peer effects” or “quasi-peer effects” in Spanish labour court rulings

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