The new Spanish autonomous communities (AACC) financing system deepensin stability, co-responsibility and financial integration concepts. The resources that itdistributes are bigger than 90% of the total of the AACC consolidated budgets. Thisdocument approach the new system's configuration, it...

This paper analyzes, using a binomial logit model, the factors that determine a students decision on a three or four year University career. The microeconomic model we consider includes the most important aspects of educational choices. The results show how social background, family earnings and...

This study measures the process of convergence in the state of health among the provinces and regions of Spain during 1980-2001 in order to analyse the possible influence of the decentralisation of healthcare management to the regions in this period. Sigma and beta convergence models,...

Spanish Abstract: La mayor población urbana, la apertura política y económica y el área territorial son factores comunes que explican el origen y la profundidad de la descentralización en América Latina. La descentralización como objetivo obligó a transferir grandes recursos al nivel...

This article presents evidence of correlation between public spending measured by general government consumption (CFGG for its initial in Spanish) as central government primary spending (GPGC for its initials in Spanish) and output per capita in the last two decades. We use a panel data...

The study is carried out within the objectives of equality that the housing policymust pursue. It will analyse whether the intervention in the housing market of thevarious designated budgets produces any compensation of the inequalities, in terms ofavailable income. It will attempt to analyse...

This paper analyses the evolution of the leading market social economy organisations in Spain since the Constitution of 1978. The first part concerns a study of co-operatives and workers societies; the second refers to mutual societies. An analysis of the institutional framework, this sector's...