Overview
Sergi Jiménez-Martín is a labor economist at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona GSE, FEDEA, and CRES. His research focuses on disability insurance, retirement, and labor market dynamics in Spain and cross-national comparisons, including the role of the business cycle in DI participation and long-run trends in early retirement.
Key Contributions / Features
- Jiménez-Martín, Juanmartí Mestres, and Vall Castelló (2016) — Barcelona GSE Working Paper 896; first paper to document a countercyclical-to-procyclical reversal in DI participation during an extreme recession; Spain's DI allowances became procyclical (denied applications became strongly countercyclical) during the 2008–2013 Great Recession; two mechanisms: sectoral composition shift (industry/construction collapse) and informal austerity tightening by disability agencies; findings contrast sharply with the US experience documented by Maestas et al. (2015). See DI Countercyclicality.
- Earlier work establishing the pre-2008 countercyclical baseline for Spain: Jiménez-Martín et al. (2006) showed higher disability benefit receipt in high-unemployment Spanish regions; Jiménez-Martín and Vall Castelló (2009) documented countercyclical DI inflows pre-crisis; Boldrin, Jiménez-Martín, and Peracchi (1999) documented use of disability as early retirement mechanism in Spain.
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