Purpose: This paper aims to analyse the differential impact of foreign and domestic remittances on household expenditure shares. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses micro-data from a very large and detailed income-expenditure survey in Mexico and runs consumption-share Engel equations...

Using micro data from Mexico and US 2000 population censuses and following a multi-choice variant of Roy's (1951) model, this article pools into one model the determinants of internal and international migration in México, while paying explicit attention to the potential problem of...

Summary Comprehensive linked employer-employee data allow us to study the relationship between domestic formal sector migration in Brazil and globalization. Considerable worker flows in the formal labor market during 1997-2001 are directed toward lower income regions--the reverse flows of those...

En este artículo analizamos las principales diferencias regionales que existen en España y en Europa respecto al gasto en Investigación y Desarrollo, I+D, y la importancia que tiene el capital humano, tanto en Educación como en Investigación, para impulsar la producción y el empleo....

En este artículo se analizan los aspectos más relevantes relacionados con el incremento de la producción de soja en Paraguay en el periodo 1991-2006, así como el contexto internacional. El objetivo es, examinar este fenómeno y su impacto en la economía paraguaya a nivel nacional. Se...

In this paper we analyse the economic impact of tourism in the economy of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEB) at regional level. We focus in those eight countries from Central and Baltic Europe that became members of the European Union in year 2004 (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary,...