Different recent works have shown that Spanish economic research has increased its international presence during the nineties. These works have also found that there is a duality in the diffusion of the research through national or international journals in function of the considered research...

This introduction summarises the main contributions included in the special issue. These papers were discussed (among others) in the special session on «Wages and Regional Labour Markets» organised within the activities of the 51st Congress of the European Association of Regional Science...

This paper is the summary of the IAREG (Intangible Assets and RegionalEconomic Growth) European project, which analyzed the role of intangibleassets (IA) on regional economic growth. We focused on some of the most relevantintangible assets, for which statistical information is available and...

En este artículo se presenta un diseño metodológico para obtener, para el conjunto de las Comunidades Autónomas en España, indicadores sobre la demografía empresarial a nivel sectorial, desagregando tanto en función del tamaño empresarial, como según la condición jurídica de las...

This article analyzes which has been the evolution of the research in urban and regional science in Spain in the period 1991-2000 situating it in the international context.With this aim,we elaborate rankings of countries,authors and institutions in function of the publications carried out in a...

This paper brings up an amount of information, data and estimations, most of them originated in academic literature, with the objective of generating a debate on the economic effects of broadband, rather than its technical issues. Our goal is to start a debate that brings out the economic...

The main aim of this paper is to evaluate the role of quality of life in population growth in a local framework. To achieve that objective we use a theoretical model that considers the basic variables that explain urban growth; we detail what do we understand when we talk about quality of life,...

We inspect the relationship between quality of work and productivity. Using Spanish aggregate data for the period 2001–2006, we find that quality of work is an additional factor to explain productivity levels in sectors and regions. Consequently, quality of work is not only an objective per...

DThe European Union launched the Lisbon Strategy in 2000 with the aim of establishing itself as the world’s most competitive knowledge-based economy. At the same time, job quality was placed at the top of the European employment and social policy agenda and, later, it was to be incorporated as...

The location of economic activity, in general, and of that of activities of business excellence (high-tech or knowledgeintensive businesses that have a low environmental impact), in particular, is not dependent on one single factor, but rather on a series of economic, geographical, social and...