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Juan F. Jimeno

Banco de España, Spain, and IZA, Germany

I am committed to improve the communication of economic research to policymakers. Without the logical coherence of economic models and lacking empirical evidence, policy choices are uninformed and likely to lead to unintended outcomes. IZA World of Labor provides an excellent scenario to make policymakers more aware of the knowledge accumulated by economic research, and researchers more aware of the needs of tailoring our research to produce significant knowledge for the design of economic and social policies

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Head of Modelling and Macroeconomic Analysis, and Head of the Research Division, Banco de España, Spain

Research interest

Unemployment, migration

Website

https://www.bde.es/investigador/en/menu/people/research_staff_a/Jimeno_Serrano__Juan_Francisco.html

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Senior Researcher, Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada, Madrid, 1992–2004

Past positions

Professor of Economics, Departamento de Fundamentos de Economía e Historia Económica, Universidad de Alcalá, 1993–2004; Lecturer in Economics, London School of Economics, 1990–1991

Qualifications

PhD Economics, MIT, 1990

Selected publications

  • The Spanish Public Pension System: Current Situation, Challenges and Reform Alternatives. Banco de España Occasional Papers No. 1701, 2017 (with P. Hernández de Cos and R. Ramos).

  • Labour Market Adjustment in Europe During the Crisis: Microeconomic Evidence from the Wage Dynamics Network Survey. European Central Bank Occasional Paper Series No. 192, 2017 (with M. Izquierdo, T. Kosma, A. Lamo, S. Millard, T. Room, and E. Viviano).

  • "Learning from the great divergence in unemployment in Europe during the crisis." Labour Economics 41 (2016): 32–46 (with T. Boeri).

  • “Collective bargaining, firm heterogeneity and unemployment.” European Economic Review 59 (2013): 63–79 (with C. Thomas).

  • “Returns to skills and the distribution of wages: Spain 1995–2010." Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 77:4 (2015) (with R. Carrasco and C. Ortega).

article(s)

  • Unemployment and the role of supranational policies

    EU supranational policies should be more active at promoting institutional reforms that reduce unemployment

    Juan F. Jimeno, October 2017
    Unemployment in Europe is excessively high on average, and is divergent across countries and population groups within countries. On the one hand, over the past decades, national governments have implemented incomplete institutional reforms to amend dysfunctional labor markets. On the other hand, EU supranational policies—those that transcend national boundaries and governments—have offered only limited financial support for active labor market policies, instead of promoting structural reforms aimed at improving the functioning of European labor markets. Better coordination and a wider scope of EU supranational policies is needed to fight unemployment more effectively.
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