The aim of this paper is to analyze the origin of the geographical distribution of the technological innovation analyzing, at the sometime the effect of such activity on indicators of productivity. For this reason, it is taken as unit of analysis the set of the Spanish autonomous communities in...

Evidence of the existence of overeducation in the Spanish labour market has drawn the attention of research on the transitory character of overeducation (Alba-Ramirez, 1993 and García and Malo, 1995). Our main interest lies on whether overeducation is a source of inefficiency in the allocation...

The aim of this paper is to find out the determinant factors of innovation. In order to do so, microeconomic data from a sample of 2000 Valencian firms in the year 1992 is used. Starting from Schumpeter's hypothesis on the role of firm's size in the innovation process, it is shown that small...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the technical efficiency of the productive sectors of the Spanish regions over the period 1980-91. We estimate a production function using an stochastic frontier approach for the productive sectors under three different distributional assumptions for the...

The analysis of the determinants of the individual wage income can be transfered to the total domestic income from the point of view of the human capital. This paper analyzes the effects that a group of variables, relative to sociodemographic and labour attributes, exerts on the total income...

This paper carries out a household classification in the framework of the Social Accounting Matrix. Bearing in mind the enlargeinent proposals of the National Accounts System of the United Nations, a first classification of Spanish households in accordance with certain demographic...

This paper implements the conceptual framework sketched by Pyatt (1990) to construct an extended Social Accounting Matrix for Spain in 1995 (ESAM-95) to consider, in addition to the market economy, the production of services provided by households through unpaid work. In doing so, the ESAM-95...