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Universalizing the Access to Long-term Care : Evidence from Spain
Costa-Font, Joan; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Vilaplana … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Spain together with Scotland are two countries that exhibit the largest expansions in long term care (LTC) in the last … care, which is now partially subsidized by a caregiving subsidy as part of SAAD. Long-term care spending in Spain amounts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014436956
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Favoritism Under Social Pressure
Garicano, Luis - 2001
This paper provides empirical evidence of favoritism by agents, where that favoritism is generated by social pressure. To do so, we explore the behavior of professional soccer referees. Referees have discretion over the addition of extra time at the end of a soccer game (called injury time), to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470344
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A Wolfram in Sheep's Clothing : U.S. Economic Warfare in Spain, 1940-1944
Caruana, Leonard - 2001
One of the most sustained uses of economic warfare by the United States occurred in Spain during WWII. We provide an … battles: (1) an oil embargo against Spain in the summer of 1940, (2) pre-emptive buying of wolfram (tungsten ore) during the … when Germany was going from victory to victory, was successful in helping keep Spain neutral because it forced the Franco …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470668
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The Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy in Europe : Evidence from Banks' Balance Sheets
Favero, Carlo A. - 1999
implement a case-study on the response of banks in France, Germany, Italy and Spain to a monetary tightening. The episode we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471558
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Social Security and Retirement in Spain
Boldrin, Michele - 1997
We describe the historical evolution of the Spanish Social Security system and its current organization. Our attention concentrates on the main public pension scheme for private employees in the manufacturing and service sector (RGSS) which covers by far the largest majority of Spanish workers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472677
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Large Countries, Small Countries, and the Enlargement of Trade Blocs
Casella, Alessandra - 1995
prediction is clear, but the empirical analysis of trade flows towards Spain and Portugal after their 1986 entry into the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473504
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Does Public Health Insurance Reduce Labor Market Flexibility or Encourage the Underground Economy? Evidence from Spain and the United States
De La Rica, Sara - 1993
This paper compares the labor market implications of the health insurance system in Spain and in the United States … that in Spain, unlike the United States, essentially all heads of household work in the covered sector and thus have a full …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474549
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International Transmission Under Bretton Woods
Stockman, Alan C. - 1992
This paper explores the main channels of international transmission of economic disturbances under the Bretton Woods System and presents evidence on the short-run international transmission of inflation under that system. There appears to have been little short-run international transmission of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474846
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Moderate Inflation
Dornbusch, Rudiger - 1991
Inflation persists at moderate rates of 15-30 percent in all the countries that successfully reduced triple digit inflations in the 1980s. Several other countries, for example Colombia, have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged periods. In this paper we first set out theories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475091
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The Earnings of Linguistic Minorities : French in Canada and Spanish in the United States
Bloom, David E. - 1991
This paper measures and compares the relative earnings of French and English speakers in Canada, and of Spanish and English speakers in the U.S., in the 1970s and 1980s. In Canada, the earnings gap between French and English speakers narrowed over time, especially in Quebec. This decline appears...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475356