The first aim of this paper is to analyse the main tendencies in employment and regional labour productivity in the Spanish hospitality sector in the period 1987-2004. A second purpose is to analyse the main determinants of sectoral labour productivity. The estimation of an augmented production...

The objetive of this piece of work is to estimate the returns to overeducation and infraeducation for those people who are working in the hospitality sector in Andalusia. Using a cross-section of workers from a representative survey carried out with European funds (project IFD97-0858), we...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the projects within the Community Initiative Interreg II Spain-Morocco (1994-1999) designed to develop cross-border cooperation. This work does not attempt a full evaluation of the programme.It is a preliminary study necessary to develop a final evaluation...

Marchante A. J. and Ortega B. (2006) Quality of life and economic convergence across Spanish regions, 1980-2001, Regional Studies 40, 471-483. Evaluations of regional welfare conventionally rely on gross value added (GVA) per capita as an indicator of living standards. This paper attempts to...

The objective of this paper is to offer evidence on the effects of corruption on human development. With this aim, cross‐country growth models have been estimated in which the growth rates of the three components of the Human Development Index (HDI) in the period 2000–2009 are regressed on a...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse whether hotels that use a revenue management system (RMS) outperform non-RMS-users in a context of decreasing demand. Design/methodology/approach A database of chain hotels with a rating of three or more stars was used to estimate MANOVA and ANOVA...

Purpose This paper aims to analyse empirically the association between flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), net official development assistance (ODA) inflows and trade-related illicit financial outflows. Design/methodology/approach With this purpose, a linear model was estimated, using...