Inequality and Employment Resilience: An Analysis of Spanish Municipalities during the Great Recession
In this paper we study an association almost neglected in the literature, that between income inequality and resilience. In particular, we explore the response of employment rates in the face of the crisis of 2008 and how income inequality levels may have affected this response. To do so, we constru...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/185922 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/185922 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Crisi econòmica, 2008-2009 Administració local Política d'ocupació Espanya Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 Local government Manpower policy Spain |
| Sumario: | In this paper we study an association almost neglected in the literature, that between income inequality and resilience. In particular, we explore the response of employment rates in the face of the crisis of 2008 and how income inequality levels may have affected this response. To do so, we construct two measures of employment resilience¿resistance and recoverability¿using data on total employment and self-employment for 995 Spanish municipalities during the Great Recession. Our results provide evidence of the threats that high levels of inequality pose for employment resilience, showing that average income is the most important mediating factor of this association. |
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