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This paper reconsiders the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income using a panel of … cointegration properties between health care spending and income. This is done in a panel data context controlling for both cross … dependence. Heterogeneity is handled through fixed effects in a panel homogeneous model and through a panel heterogeneous model …
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settlements between Spain and Great Britain. We suggest that the labour market institutions developed in each country influence …
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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...
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Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …
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government budget, as social insurance in Spain is not actuarially fair. Finally, we also assess the impact of a decline in …
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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 …
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of the European Community Household Panel, cross-sectional earnings inequality of male full-time employees falls over the …
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We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over …
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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...
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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...
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