The aim of the paper is to analyze the current situation and perspectives, both at the short run andmiddle run, of theMexican exportationmaquiladora industry. It is to combine quantitative economic conjuncture analysis with its principal components, that is, the empiric base (statistical...

Over the nineties, several changes on Port legislation where implemented in Spain. The legislation was aimed at providing port authorities with greater autonomy in some areas. In this paper we analyze the impact of the reforms on merchandise trading. We try to ascertain the impact of the reforms...

The purpose of this paper is to understand the factors behind international migrationflows. To do so, we present an investigation into the determinants of the Spanishinternational migration flows. We examine the factors behind these flows over time, and whatmotivates return migration. We find...

This article continues an article written by the same author and published by CIRIEC-España in 1997 (no. 25). It analyses social economy at three cognitive levels: first, as a social reality (Social Economy); second, as a scientific discipline which studies its previous reality (the science of...

The article distinguishes the scientist of the opinable thing, because the epistemology must explain: the nature and the path to obtain the concepts and scientific theories; the methodology with which one threads the laws and theories that give sustenance to sciences. This is the importance of...