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Citizens’ well-being depends both on their income levels and on the cost of living in their specific place of residence. However, very limited data are available on differences in price levels across geographical areas within a single country. This article presents a price index for Spanish...
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This paper studies the public sector wage gap in Spain, by gender, skill level and type of contract, using recent …
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Income per capita in Spain relative to that of other advanced EU countries held stable at around 90% from 2000 to 2016 … perspective based on recently released EU KLEMS data. Our main findings are as follows: (i) Spain has lower productivity levels … vis-à-vis other EU countries in most sectors, with only 4 out of 23 sectors exhibiting higher productivity in Spain …
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This paper studies the public sector wage gap in Spain by gender, skill level and type of contract, using recent …
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This paper studies the public sector wage gap in Spain, by gender, skill level and type of contract, using recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050625
This paper tests the opportunity-cost theory using a panel of Spanish firms during the period 1991-2010. Under this theory, productivity-enhancing activities, such as R&D investment, should increase during downturns because of the fall in their relative cost – in terms of forgone output. This...
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Total factor productivity (TFP) is considered the key determinant of long-term and sustainable economic growth. The dismal evolution of TFP characterized the Spanish economy since the foundation of the Eurozone until the outbreak of the Global Financial Crisis [see García- Santana et al....
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This paper tests the opportunity-cost theory using a panel of Spanish firms during the period 1991-2010. Under this theory, productivity-enhancing activities, such as R&D investment, should increase during downturns because of the fall in their relative cost – in terms of forgone output –....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678677
This paper considers panel growth regressions in the presence of model uncertainty and reverse causality concerns. For this purpose, my econometric framework combines Bayesian Model Averaging with a suitable likelihood function for dynamic panel models with weakly exogenous regressors and fixed...
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