AQR (Grup d’Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional): Enviaments recents
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When one door closes: the impact of the hagwon curfew on the consumption of private tutoring in the Republic of Korea [WP IREA]
The Korean government has struggled against the proliferation of private tutoring for more than four decades. In 2006, state education authorities imposed a restriction on operating hours of hagwon (private tutoring academies ...
Skill mismatches in the EU: Immigrants vs. Natives
The objective of this paper is to analyse and explain the factors behind the observed differences in skill mismatches -vertical and horizontal-, between natives and immigrants in EU countries. Using microdata from the 2007 ...
Regional wage gaps, education, and informality in an emerging country. The case of Colombia [WP]
This paper uses Colombian micro-data to analyze the role of education and informality on regional wage differentials. Our hypothesis is that apart from differences in the endowment of human capital across regions, regional ...
A gravity model of migration between ENC and EU [WP]
Due to ageing population and low birth rates, the European Union (EU) will need to import foreign labour in the next decades. In this context, the EU neighbouring countries (ENC) are the main countries of origin and transit ...
Do anti-discrimination laws alleviate labor market duality? Quasi-experimental evidence from Korea
Labor market segmentation is a growing phenomenon in many countries across different continents. In 2007, the Korean government undertook a labor reform prohibiting undue discriminatory treatment against fixed-term, ...
Relatedness, external linkages and innovation
This paper has two main objectives. First, it estimates the impact of related and unrelated variety of European regions’ knowledge structure on their patenting activity. Second, it looks at the role of technological ...
A different look at the nexus between entrepreneurship and development using GEM data
We propose a new approach for the visual inspection of the dynamic interplay between several determinants of entrepreneurship and other socioeconomic variables. We focused on the evolution of these variables in 23 countries ...
Migrant Inventors and Environmental-Related Technologies: A Life Cycle Perspective in US MSAs
One important factor in addressing climate change is the development and deployment of environmental-related, or green, technologies (GT). Environmental-related technologies are distinct, requiring specific conditions to ...
What really matters is the economic performance: Positioning tourist destinations by means of perceptual maps
The present study aims to cluster the world's main tourist destinations according to the growth of the economic performance of the tourist activity and of the tourist and economic development experienced during the last ...
Environmental degradation, income and economic complexity: Evidence from European countries
Recent energy tensions caused by conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East have added to the pressure that global warming exerts for an energy transition towards low-carbon energy sources. This study combines two time series ...
Decomposition of differences in PISA results in middle income countries
Programme for International Student Assessment
El impacto económico del Covid-19 sobre el sector turístico español
El objetivo general del documento es el estudiar el impacto de la pandemia sobre el sector turístico y la economía en general mediante un análisis comparado entre la evolución realmente observada en el sector en los años ...
Income inequality in Europe. Analysis of recent trends at the regional level
The evolution of income inequality is becoming a great concern all over the World, particularly since the start of the Great Recession. In this work we analyse the main trends of income inequality in Europe over the last ...
An Institutional, Social and Economic Performance Index, ISEPI, with an application to the European Neighbourhood Policy
In this paper we design and build a composite indicator to measure the macroeconomic, social and institutional dimensions of countries, ISEPI. The index allows not only comparing the relative situation of countries, but ...
Task Trade and its determinants in Spain: a national and regional analysis
Globalisation and technological advances have made possible to offshore specific productive tasks (that do not require physical proximity to the actual location of the work unit) to foreign countries where these are usually ...
Education and Ethnic Intermarriage: Evidence from Higher Education Expansion in Indonesia [WP]
In this paper, we analyse the effect of educational attainments on interethnic marriages in Indonesia, a multi-ethnic emerging country. The empirical analysis is based on data from the Java Island obtained from the 2014 ...
Graduate migration in Spain: the impact of the great recession on a low mobility country
This work studies the impact that the Great Recession has had on the migration of graduates in Spain, a country with low international mobility for graduates but where push factors associated to the crisis have probably ...
Cooperation in R&D, firm size and type of partnership: Evidence for the Spanish automotive industry [WP]
This paper aims to analyse cooperation in R&D in the automobile industry in Spain. It first examines to what extent firms cooperate with external actors in the field of technological innovation, and if so, with what type ...
Analyzing Wage Differentials by Fields of Study: Evidence from Turkey
This paper analyzes the drivers of wage differences among college graduates who hold a degree in a different field of study. We focus on Turkey, an emerging country that is characterized by a sustained expansion of higher ...
How Have Video-on-Demand Platforms Shaped Our Preferences? Endogenous Preferences in a Cultural Market
In this paper, I investigate the effect of the introduction of video-on-demand (VoD) platforms on the preferences for diferent language versions of movies. By using survey data gathered from 2014 to 2019 in the bilingual ...
