The Impact of Firm Level Contracting on Wage Levels and Inequality: Spain 1995-2002

This paper provides microeconomic evidence on the variation over time of the firm-specific wage premium in Spain from 1995 to 2002, and its impact on wage inequality. We make use of two waves of a detailed linked employer-employee data set. In addition, a new data set with financial information on firms is used for 2002 to control as flexibly as possible for differences in the performance of firms (aggregated at industry level). To our knowledge, there is no microeconomic evidence on the dynamics of the firm-specific wage premium for Spain or for any other country with a similar institutional setting. Our results suggest that there is a clear tendency towards centralization in the collective bargaining process in Spain over this seven-year period, that the firm-level contract wage premium undergoes a substantial decrease, particularly for women, and finally that the "centralization" observed in the collective bargaining process has resulted in a slight decrease in wage inequality.

Note d'épigraphie hispanique: á propos de HAEP. 2523 et AE, 1995, 858

Un primer trabajo sobre estas inscripciones se presentó en la SFER, París, el 20 de junio de 1998.

Vestigios para un melancólico. El discurso alegórico de Underground (1995) sobre las ruinas de Yugoslavia

[ES] El presente trabajo realiza un análisis fílmico de la película "Underground" (1995) de Emir Kusturica. Esto se lleva a cabo, no como un fin, sino al servicio de la discusión del concepto de alegoría y de su aplicación en el arte. A través de autores provenientes de diversos ámbitos, entre los que destacan Walter Benjamin, Omar Calabrese y Peter Handke, se llevará a cabo una indagación en torno a conceptos como la alegoría, el neobarroco o las diferentes concepciones de la historia.