En este trabajo analizamos el nivel del gasto publico en Sanidad y Educacion de España comparandolo con otros paises europeos y de la OCDE. El analisis incluye un modelo econometrico que estima la elasticidad del gasto con respecto al PIB y al numero de estudiantes. La principal conclusion es...

In this article we present an analysis of several socio-economic indicators related with quality of life, economic development, human capital, social capital and women participation in politics, management, labor and income. We present some econometric models which relate women income ratio with...

Since 1975, the extent of catching-up has been very different across Southern regions. Starting from the common arguments of growth theory, the paper wishes to show whether differences in regional income and growth can be attributed to different endowment in human capital, differences in private...

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,...

We present some econometric models of agrarian and non agrarian employment in OECD countries, and analyse the evolution of employment in European Union and the USA and other areas in the period 1960-2000. Data show that wages are lower in EU than in the USA and in spite of that rates of...

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...

Most of the data available to economists is observational rather than the outcome of natural or quasi experiments. This complicates analysis because it is common for observationally distinct individuals to exhibit similar responses to a given environment and for observationally identical...

We provide a concise introduction to a household-panel data infrastructure that provides the international research community with longitudinal data of private households in Germany since 1984: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We demonstrate the comparative strength of the SOEP data in...

The prevailing gender preferences in employment opportunities in Nigeria's civil service are worrisome. Although by the virtue of Nigeria's population, the potential female labour force is about 50% and the national labour force participation rate is about 67.4%, the male participation rate is...

This paper proposes a statistical framework in which artificial intelligence can assist human decision making. Using observational data we benchmark the performance of each decision maker against the machine predictions, and replace decision makers whose information process quality is dominated...