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Dataset of the work - The short-run relationship between inequality and growth: evidence from OECD regions during the Great Recession
Dades associades a l'article: Vicente Royuela, Paolo Veneri & Raul Ramos (2018): The short-run relationship between inequality and growth: evidence from OECD regions during the Great Recession, Regional Studies, DOI: ...
When the time is right: Testing for dynamic effects in collaborative performance
Organizations develop collaborative relationships in order to manage external interdependencies that are consequential for performance. Econometric research has tested whether such collaboration brings improved performance ...
Quantifying the under-reporting of uncorrelated longitudal data: the genital warts example
Abstract Background: Genital warts are a common and highly contagious sexually transmitted disease. They have a large economic burden and affect several aspects of quality of life. Incidence data underestimate the real ...
La valoración que hacen los estudiantes de su experiencia universitaria
El hecho de estar inmersos en un amplio proceso de modificación de las titulaciones, junto con la progresiva diversificación de perfiles de los estudiantes, convierten en más relevanre que nunca conocer la percepción que ...
Road safety determinants: do political institutions matter?
In 2010 the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 64/255 declaring 2011-2020 the Decade of Action for Road Safety with the main goal of stabilizing and then reducing the level of road traffic fatalities (United ...
The institutional vs. the academic definition of the quality of work life. What is the focus of the European Commission?
In recent years, we have seen how the quality of work life has been focused and defined by the European Commission (EC). In our study we compare the EC definition with the academic one and try to see how close they are. ...
Decomposing differences in total factor productivity across firm size
This paper investigates the extent to which the gap in total factor productivity between small and large firms is due to differences in the endowment of factors determining productivity and to the returns associated with ...
A relational approach to the geography of innovation: a typology of regions
The aim of this study was to devise a method for computing a composite indicator that measures the regional degree of exposure to external knowledge sources. On the basis of this indicator, we propose a typology of regions ...
El acuerdo para rellenar la hucha de las pensiones afectará a la nómina, los impuestos y los costes laborales
Con el acuerdo para aumentar las cotizaciones los trabajadores cobrarán menos, los empresarios pagarán más y Hacienda obtendrá menos ingresos por IRPF. Sin embargo, esta medida es un claro triunfo del interés colectivo.
Regional borders, local unemployment, and life satisfaction
In this paper, we provide novel evidence on the effect of local unemployment rate on life satisfaction. With this, we contribute to the expanding literature that aims to understand the role of the local labor market's ...
Winners and Losers in Toll Motorway Renegotiations: an empirical evaluation of the Spanish Pioneers
This paper evaluates the welfare impact of a tolled motorway contract renegotiation in Spain. The results show that, after renegotiation, both taxpayers and the private concessionaire were better off. However, road users ...
Economic and social convergence in Colombia (WP)
GDP has usually been used as a proxy for human well-being. Nevertheless, other social aspects should also be considered, such as life expectancy, infant mortality, educational enrolment and crime issues. With this paper ...
On the relationship between congestion and road safety in cities
We empirically examine the relationship between traffic congestion and deaths in road accidents at the city level. We use panel data from 130 large cities in Europe for the period 2008-2017. We find strong evidence of a ...
Assesing the effectiveness of recient pension reforms: The French experiment
Reforming public and private pension systems to address the challenges posed by population ageing and a range of economic, labour market, social, political, geopolitical, technological, legal, and regulatory shocks remains ...
An analysis of the determinants in economics and business publications by spanish universities between 1994 and 2004 (WP)
The objective of this study consists, firstly, of quantifying differences between Spanish universities’ output (in terms of publications and citations), and secondly, analysing its determinants. The results obtained show ...
Economía urbana y calidad de vida. Una revisión del estado del conocimiento en España
Quality of life is increasingly becoming a concept researched empirically and theoretically in the field of economics. In urban economics in particular, this increasing interest stems mainly from the fact that quality of ...
Agglomeration, Inequality and Economic Growth (WP)
The impact of income inequality on economic growth is dependent on several factors, including the time horizon considered, the initial level of income and its initial distribution. Yet, as growth and inequality are also ...
Is There an Estimation Bias in Occupational Health and Safety Surveys? The Mode of Administration and Informants as a Source of Error
Information quality deficiencies have been detected in occupational safety and health surveys in Europe, which typically gather self-reported data responded by employers or their representatives. For instance, their low ...
Big-data Analytics en seguros
La revolución del big-data ha impactado en el sector asegurador más de lo que se esperaba, hasta convertirse en un ejemplo paradigmático de lo que es la nueva economía digital. La gran cantidad de datos y la modelización ...
Multi-state models for evaluating conversion options in life insurance
In this paper we propose a multi-state model for the evaluation of the conversion option contract. The multi-state model is based on age-indexed semi-Markov chains that are able to reproduce many important aspects that ...
