Este trabajo presenta los resultados de una evaluación preliminar de las ayudas estructurales europeas que la Comunidad de Madrid espera recibir durante el período 2007-2013. Dichas ayudas ascienden a 1.185 millones de euros a precios corrientes, equivalentes a 754 millones de euros de 1995....

This work presents the evaluation results of the investments programmes cointained in the “Programa Operativo Integrado of Castilla-La Mancha (POICLM)”, for the 2000-2006 period. The program amounts to 2102 million of 1995-euros. In order to calculate them, we use the adaptation of the...

One of the reasons for persistent high unemployment in Spain has been attributed to a low mobility of workers between regions. We examine workers’ geographical mobility indirectly through migration willingness of unemployed. We focus on two observed patterns in migration willingness, downward...

In this paper we assess the empirical relevance of an expectations version of Purchasing Power Parity in forecasting the Dollar/Euro exchange rate. This version is based on the Uncovered Interest Rate Parity and tbe Fisher Hypothesis, and it makes use of the differentials of inflation...

In this paper we explore to which extent the increase in childhood overweight and obesity are consequences of the participation of mothers in the labour market. We think that the increase in female labor force participation can explain, at least in part, the observed increase in the prevalence...

This paper presents a selective survey on some recent empirical attempts to test the validity of Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) to explain exchange-rate movements in the main currencies, as well as the econometric methodology used in such tests. Finally, we offer some encouraging results...

El gasto atribuible a la innovación tecnológica en las empresas de la economía alavesa en el año 2003, ascendió al 5,03% del PIB, algo más de 1 punto porcentual por encima de la cifra para el conjunto de Euskadi. Esta diferencia a favor del territorio de Álava se explica por las cifras de...

The social and economic performances that our societies are experiencing announce a wide set of implications in many areas of our life. Relative ageing and labour market participation of the eldest dynamics evolve along two separated paths: in one way the duration of life is continuously...