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The paper analyses the ownership structure of a large sample of Spanish listed companies. The results are analysed in terms of governance implications under the agency theory context. The results show a picture with concentrated ownership where stock markets are relatively low important. Direct...
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Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects …
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This paper analyses the foundations, possible applications and the effects of tourism taxation in Spain. The article … tourism taxation in Spain, with special mention being given to the now repealed Balearic ecotasa. Finally, the effects of two …-related sectors could have the same effects on tourist expenditure but at the costs of greater impact for Spain's economy. …
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hypothesis (TLGH). The cases under analysis are Spain and Italy, two of the most important countries worldwide regarding the … exports cause economic growth in the long-term for both countries, whilst only for Spain tourism appears as a factor which …
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Spain. Using the data from 2003, 2006 and 2009 wave of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we show … time spent in Spain. Among immigrants, Latin Americans enjoy an initial linguistic advantage, which, however, does not help … them to catch up faster. The rate of improvement is such that students who stay almost all their lives in Spain still …
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The Spanish labour market disproportionately booms in expansions and bursts in recessions; meanwhile, its regions' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To examine this twofold feature, we apply Blanchard and Katz's...
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called "The Great Moderation". In Spain, a similar pattern was observed: in fact, potential growth estimates were trending … of macroeconomic imbalances, therefore provided misleading signals to the policymakers. In this paper we apply to Spain a …
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The Spanish debt consolidation between 1996 and 2007 represents, by its size and duration, an impressive case among the European Union countries. This paper aims at characterizing the Spanish debt consolidation process in order to assess its effects on economic inequality and welfare. For that...
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Using data for all exporters, we show that it is a small group of firms that dominate exports in Spain. For example, in … of Spanish exports. If top exporters disappeared, Spain would lose its revealed comparative advantage in 60% of …
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We exploit a country-wide child labor regulation that eliminated the difference in school/work alternatives for children born at the beginning and the end of the year to identify the causal effect of education on migration at low levels of schooling. By not relying on changes to the school...
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