International migration issues are at the forefront of the political debate in the European Union (EU). Some reasons justify the increasing relevance of this topic, being the unprecedented scale of international migration flows, especially in countries such as Spain, the most prominent. In fact,...

This article proposes a critical revision of the relationship between commercial integration openness and economic growth, being as it is one of the richest fields in the economic literature. The interest of its effects on economic growth is strengthened by the disparity of results, caused by...

This article proposes a critical revision of the relationship between commercial integration openness and economic growth, being as it is one of the richest fields in the economic literature. The interest of its effects on economic growth is strengthened by the disparity of results, caused by...

El grado de descentralización fiscal en España es comparable al de los países representativos del federalismo y superior al de los países unitarios. La demanda de descentralización del sector público se basa en una supuesta ganancia de eficiencia, que está lejos de ser evidente. En...

Este artículo propone una revisión crítica de la relación entre integración y apertura comercial y crecimiento. La disparidad de resultados entre unos estudios y otros obedece, en muchos casos, a la utilización indistinta de indicadores asociados a la apertura, fundamentalmente al peso de...

This paper analyses the investment effort made in Spain in R&D in the last few years. After showing that Spain is lagging behind the most advanced European countries in R&D intensity and that disparities across all EU countries are large but decreasing, the paper draws its attention to the...

The aim of the paper is to analyse how the regional convergence, polarization and mobility have evolved in the EU from 1980 onwards. Using both simple and weighted indicators, the paper not only shows that all these three processes have been going on but that there are no sings of polarization...

Labour market is characterized in Spain by a high persistence in unemployment rates. One of the main reasons of this persistence is the lack of labour mobility. The present paper addresses this issue empirically and analyses the determinants of migration in Spain from a regional standpoint. We...

Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo aborda el estudio de la relación entre vacantes y desempleo para la economía española. En primer lugar se examina el marco teórico, la conocida curva de Beveridge. Luego, con distintas especificaciones y métodos de estimación por cuestiones de robustez, se...