The extent to which equality in the access to and the financing of health care reduces inequalities in health is a key question for health-care reform policy-making. Cross-country studies, when they exist suffer from marked comparability limitations due to data heterogeneity and differences...

Obesity is one of the main health policy concerns in western societies today. In spite of its strong policy implications, the research devoted to the issue has been somewhat limited. This paper empirically examines the existence of income-related inequalities in obesity in Spain, using the...

This study examines the sensitivity of future long-term-care demand and expenditure estimates to "official" demographic projections in four selected European countries: Germany, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom. It uses standardised methodology in the form of a macro-simulation exercise and...

Low voter turn-out questions the legitimacy of modern democracies in pursuing some desired goals of political inclusion and legitimacy. Yet, in examining the determinants of individuals' participation, rational voting models assume that participation in elections is an exogenous feature whereby...

This paper analyzes the role that global value chains (GVC) have played during the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, and the key policy challenges that Spain faces. First, we provide a comparative analysis of the export performance and FDI activities of Spanish firms, using the firm-level...

Infrastructure investment is an inter-temporal decision through which society foregoes its current wellbeing for the future. In the economic assessment of this trade-off, the practical standard method is cost-benefit analysis, which compares the social benefits and costs of the decision....

Basándonos en el modelo de comportamiento de Slemrod (2001) y utilizando el Panel de Declarantes del Instituto de Estudios Fiscales para el período 1999-2008, analizamos si el carácter dual del IRPF español, reforzado con la reforma del año 2007, influye en la composición de la renta del...

El colectivo de parados de larga duración supera la mitad del total de desempleados en nuestro país – alrededor de 3,5 millones de individuos. En este artículo se caracteriza al colectivo por características demográficas así como tipo de empleo anterior y se estiman los factores que más...