Presentation

Spain has suffered from a serious problem of productivity during the last expansion period which reached a wide majority of industries and almost all of the regions. Its origin was mostly unproductive capital accumulation induced by the real estate boom, but there were also exploitation problems...

This paper analyzes the impact of intangible assets in labor productivity growth in Spain over the period 1995-2007 using a new database that contains the breakdown of 24 industries of 11 intangible assets. Growth accounting and econometric estimates of expanded production function are used to...

Education helps to increase human capital, but its effect on factor endowments also depends on its quality. This paper analyzes the contribution of human capital to productivity growth in Spain during the period 2000-2013 taking into account the information on levels of skills and competencies...