Pilar Díaz Vázquez

I am a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Msc in Economics at the University of Manchester (UK) and PhD in Economics at the University of London (UK).  I am interested in the relationship between labour market institutions and employment in recessions (in the business cycle). In particular, I focus on those institutions related to employment protection (minimum wage, firing costs) in a context of technological change and globalization. The aim is to shed light on the relevant economic policy in this context.

Relevant papers

Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar and Dennis Snower (2003), “Can Insider Power Affect Employment?”, German Economic Review, 4(2), pp.139-150.

Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar, Dennis Snower and Luis Arjona-Béjar (2005), “On-the-Job Learning, Firing Costs and Employment”, Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy (The B.E. Journal on Economic Analysis and Policy), 4(1), paper 2, pp. 1-27.

Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar and Dennis Snower (2006), “On-the-Job Learning and the Effects of Insider Power”, Labour Economics 13(3), pp. 317-341.

Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar and Luis Arjona-Béjar (2013), “The Effect of Labour Turnover Costs on Average Labour Demand when Recessions are More Persistent than Booms”, ISRN Economics 2013, pp. 1-13. 
Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar (2013), “Insider Power and Average Labor Demand When Recessions Are Prolonged”, Economics Research International 2013, pp.1-6.