A través de este paper realizamos un recorrido rápido e introductorio sobre los elementos más importantes de la Nueva Geografía Económica, destacando el concepto general sobre el que se sustenta la rama, un pequeño repaso histórico y la concepción de una competencia imperfecta sobre la...

RESUMEN<br> <br> Muchos son los estudios que analizan la realidad desde una perspectiva espacial o territorial. En algunas ocasiones ambos términos se utilizan como si de sinónimos se tratara. No obstante, su significado es muy distinto. Para desentrañar las diferencias entre uno y otro es preciso...

El estudio de los ciclos económicos ha sido de gran interés desde su análisis formal a principios del siglo XX, no obstante no se ha producido un consenso entre los expertos en cuanto a su definición y a las técnicas de estimación de los mismos. Es por ello, que en este trabajo se presenta...

REVISTA SOCIEDAD Y ECONOMIA # 19

We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labour-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...

The aim of the paper is to compare the employment performance at different levels of “regional” (dis)aggregation and to analyse the effectiveness of the European Employment Strategy in favouring net job creation and employment performance convergence. In the first part, the (quantitative)...

In this paper we consider a model with two industrialized countries that face a flow of immigration from the "rest of the world." The countries differ in three characteristics: the labor complementarity between the "native" population and immigrants, the population size, and the magnitude of the...

TSEP-RLI was a technical cooperation project jointly conducted by GOP thru DA-Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) and GOJ thru JICA aimed at institutionalizing the training program for Rural Life Improvement (RLI) at the (ATI). As expected, farmers, fisherfolk, women, youth and extension...

This paper explores the economic implications of isolation and remoteness. Evidence on the impact of distance on trade costs and trade flows is reviewed, and the effects of remoteness on real incomes are investigated. Empirical work confirms the predictions of theory, that distance from markets...

The paper aims to question the pertinence and the grounds of technological policies at infra national level. The research combines the contribution of knowledge economics to approaches dealing with the location of activities. The first part of the paper looks through the argumentation accounting...