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T1 Judges and court productivity: evidence from Spanish labour courts
A1 Martín Román, Ángel Luis
A1 Moral de Blas, Alfonso
A1 Rosales, Virginia
K1 Tribunales laborales
K1 Productividad judicial
K1 Elaboración de políticas judiciales
K1 Jueces profesionales
K1 Efecto del tratamiento
AB The aim of this paper is to test whether the courts’ productivity, proxied by the “Resolution Rate”, is affected by the acting of other judges, beside the incumbent one, ruling in the court as substitute judges. It also seeks to study if this effect depends on whether the additional judges are professionals or not. From a methodological point of view, the treatment variable is defined as a dummy that takes the value of 1 if the court is shared with other judges. To analyse the impact of this variable on court productivity, least squares, panel data estimations and dose–response models are applied. The data was obtained from the annual judicial statistics published by the Spanish General Council of the Judiciary with information from all the Spanish Social Courts from 2005 to 2019. This database was modified in several ways to make the analysis robust and to eliminate possible sources of endogeneity. The main results show a reduction in productivity when other non-professional judges were working in the court, besides the incumbent one. However, no significant differences were detected if these additional judges were professional.
PB Springer Nature
SN 0929-1261
YR 2025
FD 2025
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/79025
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/79025
LA eng
NO European Journal of Law and Economics, 2025.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 25-oct-2025