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Energy consumption, economic growth and CO2 emissions in Middle East and North African countries
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; M'henni, Hatem - 2012
This article extends the recent findings of Liu (2005), Ang (2007), Apergis et al. (2009) and Payne (2010) by implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282194
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Effects of Religiosity on Social Behaviour: Experimental Evidence from a Representative Sample of Spaniards
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espín, Antonio M.; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013
This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three paradigmatic economic games: the dictator (DG), ultimatum (UG), and trust (TG) games. A large carefully designed sample of a Spanish urban adult population (N=766) is employed. From...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329145
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Marital Fertility and Religion : Recent Changes in Spain
Adsera, Alicia - 2004
Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262142
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Is the Deficit under Control?
Bonin, Holger; Abio, Gemma; Berenguer, Eduardo; Gil, Joan; … - 2001
government budget, as social insurance in Spain is not actuarially fair. Finally, we also assess the impact of a decline in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262513
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The motherhood wage penalty in a Mediterranean country: the case of Spain
Molina, José Alberto; Montuenga, Víctor M. - 2008
We present evidence for the motherhood wage penalty in Spain as a representative Southern European Mediterranean … country. We use the European Community Household Panel (ECHP, 1994-2001) to estimate, from both pool and fixed-effects methods … one child living in the household means a significant loss in wages of 6%, having two children, almost 14%, and having …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268819
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Long term earnings inequality, earnings instability and temporary employment in Spain: 1993 - 2000
Cervini Plá, María; Ramos, Xavier - 2008
of the European Community Household Panel, cross-sectional earnings inequality of male full-time employees falls over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268846
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Immigration and housing booms: evidence from Spain
González Luna, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - 2009
We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269418
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Wage effects of non-wage labour costs
Plá, María Cervini; Ramos, Xavier; Silva, José Ignacio - 2010
We study short- and long-term wage effects of two important elements of non-wage labour costs: firing costs and payroll taxes. We exploit a reform that introduced substantial reduction in these two provisions for unemployed workers aged less than thirty and over forty five years. Theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269871
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Analyzing Religiosity Within an Economic Framework: The Case of Spanish Catholics
Garza, Pablo Brañas; Neuman, Shoshana - 2003
Using a sample of Spanish Catholics, we examined the level of religiosity (measured by beliefs, prayer and church attendance) and the relationship between religiosity and various socio-economic variables. An Ordered Logit estimation of religiosity equations showed that: women are more religious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273884
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Does immigration raise natives' income? National and regional evidence from Spain
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; de la Rica, Sara - 2008
-receiving nations. Spain is no exception following the rapid increase in immigrant flows experienced over the past decade. We assess the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276393