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Informality and Overeducation in the Labor Market of a Developing Country
In this paper, we explore the connection between labor market segmentation in two sectors, a modern protected formal sector and a traditionalunprotected-informal sector, and overeducation in a developing country. Informality ...
Changes in Wage Structure in Mexico Going Beyond the Mean : An Analysis of Differences in Distribution, 1987-2008
This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the relationship between wage inequality, employment structure, and returns to education in urban areas of Mexico during the past two decades (1987-2008). Applying Melly’s (2005) ...
Cartel destabilization effect of leniency programs
This paper investigates the theoretically and empirically unsettled question of the effect of the leniency programs on cartel duration, cartel fines and the length of the investigation. The fact that leniency programs were ...
Testing the FTPL across government tiers
Control on regional government budgets is important in a monetary union as lower tiers of government have fewer incentives to consolidate debt. According to the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level; unsustainable non-Ricardian ...
Is the influence of quality of life on urban growth non-stationary in space? A case study of Barcelona
There are several determinants that influence household location decisions. More concretely, recent economic literature assigns an increasingly important role to the variables governing quality of life. Nevertheless, the ...
Quality in work and aggregate productivity
We explore the relationship between quality in work and aggregate productivity in regions and sectors. Using recent Spanish aggregate data for the period 2001-2006, we find that quality in work may be an important factor ...
On the regional impact of broadband on productivity: the case of Brazil [WP]
This paper analyses the incidence of broadband on regional productivity in Brazil, intending to find out if the economic impact is uniform across all territories of the country. The possibility of performing a regional ...
An analysis of the Okun´s law for the Spanish provinces
The inverse relationship between unemployment and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, commonly known as Okun’s law, has been traditionally analysed in the economic literature. Its application for Spain has been carried ...
A multivariate neural network approach to tourism demand forecasting
This study compares the performance of different Artificial Neural Networks models for tourist demand forecasting in a multiple - output framework. We test the forecasting accuracy of three different types of architectures ...
Does social capital reinforce technological inputs in the creation of knowledge? Evidence from the Spanish regions
In this paper we seek to verify the hypothesis that trust and cooperation between individuals, and between them and public institutions, can encourage technological innovation and the adoption of knowledge. Additionally, ...
Cambios en la distribución salarial en españa, 1995-2002. efectos a través del tipo de contrato
En este trabajo analizamos los cambios en la distribución salarial en España entre 1995 y 2002, utilizando la información contenida en la Encuesta de Estructura Salarial. El análisis revela un notable cambio en la distribución ...
When supply travels far beyond demand: Institutional and regulatory causes of oversupply in Spain’s transport infrastructure
Spain’s transport infrastructure policy has become a paradigmatic case of oversupply and of mismatch with demand. The massive expansion of the country’s transport infrastructure over the last decade has not been a response ...
La efectividad de las políticas activas de mercado de trabajo para luchar contra el paro. La experiencia de Cataluña
El objetivo de este trabajo es evaluar la efectividad de las políticas activas llevadas a cabo por el Servicio de Ocupación de Cataluña (SOC) durante el año 2005. Los resultados obtenidos a partir de la aplicación de ...
Are we wasting our talent? Overqualification and overskilling among PhD graduates
Drawing on a very rich data set from a recent cohort of PhD graduates, we examine the correlates and consequences of qualification and skills mismatch. We show that job characteristics such as the economic sector and the ...
What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution [WP]
This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different theoretical explanations in accounting for the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from low-to-high-density ...
Productivity and innovation spillovers: Micro evidence from Spain
This article analyses the impact that innovation expenditure and intrasectoral and intersectoral externalities have on productivity in Spanish firms. While there is an extensive literature analysing the relationship between ...
Regional borders, local unemployment and happiness [WP]
In this paper we provide novel evidence on the effect of local unemployment rate on life satisfaction. We investigate how changes in unemployment rate in local administrative areas affect subjective well-being in Germany, ...
An evaluation of optimal scale and jurisdiction size to improve efficiency in metropolitan bus systems
Urban bus services operate under concession regime in many cities around the world. Their area boundaries are usually an institutional or administrative legacy, which do not necessarily meet the criteria of optimal ...
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 ...
Let the data do the talking: Empirical modelling of survey-based expectations by means of genetic programming
In this study we use agents’ expectations about the state of the economy to generate indicators of economic activity in twenty-six European countries grouped in five regions (Western, Eastern, and Southern Europe, and ...
