type="main" xml:lang="es" <title type="main">Resumen</title> <p>En este estudio sostenemos que la capacidad de las regiones para atraer a la IED se ve afectada por el efecto del propio país, que puede manifestarse de dos formas diferentes: la primera se relaciona con el desempeño relativo del país del que forma parte la...</p>

This article examines regional inequalities in Greece, on the basis of $\sigma$-convergence and $\beta$-convergence analysis and shows that they were reduced in the 1970s and the 1980s. Regression analysis indicates that regional inequalities have a pro-cyclical character, increasing in periods...

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This paper uses microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals in order to analyse whether the individual economic returns to education vary between migrants and non-migrants and whether any differences in earnings between these two groups are affected by household and/or...