With reference to the Baumol/de Long controversy over the importance of the sample selection when verifying the convergence hypothesis, the paper concludes that the convergence results are conditioned by the joint consideration of the United States and Japan in the same country sample. The...

This paper analyses the evolution of inequality among twenty-four countries belonging to the OECD during the period 1962-1993, using the database provided by this Organization. It argues the relevance of distinguishing between the two variables that arehabitually considered in the analysis of...

This paper questions the empirical evidence of the relationship between inequality and growth on the basis of the estimation of convergence equations. The criticisms are aimed in two directions - at the quality of the data and at the standard estimation procedure. It begins by describing in...

This paper makes a proposal for a taxonomy of boundary changes in Spanish municipalities along time. The different types of changes are organized in a hierarchy, as well as represented in a homogeneous manner, independently of the number of municipalities involved and of the changes suffered....

This paper presents an exercise in the definition of cities from clear and explicit quantitative criteria. The city concept is linked to the local political level, so in this sense we can talk about “administrative cities”, since they are formed by one municipality, or a group of them that...

This paper presents an evaluation, from the user point of view, of the regular population grid, with 1 km2 resolution, that the Spanish National Statistical Institute (INE), has released as a product from the last Population and Dwellings Census 2011. This way of disseminating population data is...

This paper presents Disability Free Life Expectancy (DFLE) at the national level for the years 2004, 2005 y 2006, and at the regional level (NUTS 2) by pooling the information of these three years from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey. This is the...

This paper presents an exercise in the estimation of rural and urban population at municipal level. Our starting point is a population density grid at 1 km2 resolution and national coverage, which has been elaborated previously by the authors. Applying standard criteria in European official...

El objetivo del trabajo es determinar la existencia y magnitud de las economías de escala, internas y externas, y los márgenes entre precio y coste marginal en la industria española, durante el período 1964- 1989. Los resultados obtenidos para 13 de los 14 sectores industriales de NACE-CLIO...

This is a user's guide for the DYNFAC package. A program written in GAUSS toestimate, by maximum likelihood in the time domain, DYNamic FACtor analytic modelswith one common factor (single-index models), by means of the Kalman filter.The underlying theory and methods are briefly explained. Esta...