We analyse the evolution of Private Consumption on Health, having into account that there are substitution effects between public and private expenditure in OECD countries. From the analysis of the evolution of these variables our main conclusion is that the increase of expenditure on Health,...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the evolution of manufacturing in 11 OECD countries, during the period 1975-92, from two viewpoints: supply and demand. With this purpose we estimate, with a pool of data, two econometric models for explaining industrial production from the above mentioned...

This article analyses the evolution of employment rates by sector in Germany, in comparison with the European Union averages. We explain the main causes of the differences of employment rates among regions, the inter-relation between the evolution of employment and the spatial distribution of...

This article presents a comparison of the evolution of employment rates by sector in Italy with the European Union averages. We analyse the main causes of the differences of the rates of non-agrarian employment, between northern and southern regions, as well as the inter-relation between the...

This paper compares several methodologies for analysing unidirectional and bi-directional causality between Consumption and GDP in 25 OECD countries during the period 1960-95. For analysing unilateral causality a comparison is made between cointegration tests and joint regression on alternative...

Este articulo analiza varios indicadores de actividad turistica en 100 regiones de 12 paises de la Union Europea durante el periodo 1990-2000. Analizamos las posiciones que las distintas regiones ocupan en el ranking de indicadores de turismo hotelero y extra-hotelero. Consideramos que ambos...

El objetivo de nuestro trabajo es analizar cual es el papel del capital humano en el crecimiento de la economia, y para ello estudiamos un efecto indirecto ademas del tradicional efecto directo que se observa en la funcion de produccion para el capital humano. Se trata del efecto indirecto que...

We present a comparison of economic development in Mexico with some OECD countries (France, Spain and the USA) and Latin American countries (Brazil and Argentina) and we analyse the evolution of employment in Mexico, having into account the positive impact that industrial development has in...

Presentamos varios modelos econometricos con datos de panel internacionales, de Europa, America y Asia, que ponen de manifiesto el importante impacto positivo y significativo que el capital humano tiene sobre el desarrollo economico, a traves del efecto inversion y mediante otros efectos...

En este documento se analizan las limitaciones del analisis de cointegracion para la determinacion del caracter causal o espurio de las relaciones economicas. La aplicacion habitual de este enfoque lleva, con frecuencia, a considerar como espurias relaciones que son causales y, ademas, no...