UB Economics (ERE): Enviaments recents
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Transitional effects of a pension system change in Spain
This paper studies the output effects, transition costs and the change in pension benefits derived from the substitution of the current unfunded pension system by a fully funded pension system financed through mandatory ...
Agricultural Composition and Labor Productivity [WP]
Labor productivity differences between developing and developed countries are much larger in agriculture than in non-agriculture. We show that cross-country differences in agricultural composition explain a substantial ...
Gendered Effects of the Minimum Wage
Women are more likely to work in jobs with low hours than men. Low-hour jobs are associated with lower hourly wages and are more likely impacted by minimum wages that set a floor on hourly wages. We document that the first ...
Eliciting preferences for collectively financed health programmes : the "willingness to assign" approach
Improving public involvement in health system decision making stands as a primary goal in health systems reform. However, still limited evidence is found on how best to elicit preferences for health care programs. This ...
Were Spanish migrants attracted by industrial agglomerations?: an analysis for the interwar years in the light of the new economic geography
In this paper we examine whether access to markets had a significant influence on migration choices of Spanish internal migrants in the inter-war years. We perform a structural contrast of a New Economic Geography model ...
Demand-based structural change and balanced economic growth [WP]
[eng] We analyze the equilibrium of a multi-sector exogenous growth model where the introduction of minimum consumption requirements drives structural change. We show that equilibrium dynamics simultaneously exhibt structural ...
The inequality trap. A comparative analysis of social spending between 1880 and 1933 [WP]
[spa] Utilizando dos indicadores alternativos de redistribución –las transferencias sociales y el gasto social- durante el periodo de tiempo comprendido entre 1880 y 1933, y utilizando dos indicadores alternativos de ...
Lifecycle consumption and household structure: A pseudo-panel approach
This paper aims to identify empirically how household structure and other socioeconomic characteristics affect the lifecycle consumption profile, exploiting data available for Spain for the last 15 years. Given the nature ...
Industrial agglomerations and wage gradients: the Spanish economy in the interwar period
This paper gives new evidence on the relationship between integration and industrial agglomeration in the presence of scale economies, by testing directly one of the predictions that can be derived from Krugman (1991), ...
On the elasticity of substitution between labor and ICT and IP capital and traditional capital
I estimate CES aggregate production functions for the US, the UK, Japan, Germany, and Spain using data from the EU KLEMS database. I distinguish between three types of capital: information and communication technologies ...
Envy in Mission-Oriented Organizations [WP]
According to the labor donation theory, workers adhering to their firms'mission are willing to donate a portion of their paid labor. In this paper, we study how workers' fairness concerns limit the firm's ability to extract ...
Anatomizing the Mechanics of Structural Change
We characterize several possible mechanisms of structural change by using a general multisector growth model, where preferences and technologies are not parameterized. In this generic set up, we derive the growth rates of ...
Willigness to pay for long-term care coverage: the role of private information and self-insurance
Both public and private insurance for long-term care is undeveloped in some European countries such as in Spain and empirical evidence is still limited. This paper aims at exmining the determinants of the demand for Long ...
R&D poverty traps
In this paper we show that the R&D effort of a country and its economic growth are highly correlated. In order to analyze this relationship, we study the nature of the researching activity. In particular, we focus on the ...
Insights into the nucleolus of the assignment game
We show that the family of assignment matrices which give rise to the same nucleolus form a compact join-semilattice with one maximal element, which is always a valuation. -see p.43, Topkis, 1998-. We give an explicit ...
Level shifts in a panel data based unit root test : an application to the rate of unemployment
Several unit root tests in panel data have recently been proposed. The test developed by Harris and Tzavalis (1999 JoE) performs particularly well when the time dimension is moderate in relation to the cross-section ...
Multi-sided Böhm-Bawerk assignment markets: the core
[cat] En aquest treball introduïm la classe de "multi-sided Böhm-Bawerk assignment games", que generalitza la coneguda classe de jocs d’assignació de Böhm-Bawerk bilaterals a situacions amb un nombre arbitrari de sectors. ...
An egalitarian approach for the adjudication of conflicting claims
This paper addresses the challenge of adjudicating conflicting claims by introducing a related reference point depending on the claims of agents. Egalitarian principles underpin many allocation rules, with the constrained ...
Authors', Institutions' and Countries' rankings in regional and urban science : an analysis for nine top international journals from 1991 to 2000
This paper examines the most productive authors, institutions and countries in regional and urban science from 1991 to 2000 using information on published articles (and pages) from a sample of widely recognized journals ...
Evaluating the impact of public subsidies on a firm's performance: a quasi-experimental approach [WP-ERE]
Many regional governments in developed countries design programs to improve the competitiveness of local firms. In this paper, we evaluate the effectiveness of public programs whose aim is to enhance the performance of ...
