In this paper we provide an empirical assessment of two of the measures proposed in the context of the European Single Market, namely, easing the provision of domestic and foreign services, and modifying the rules of public procurement, for the case of Spain. We build and simulate a computable...

El sistema urbanístico español tiene una larga tradición de fuertes limitaciones legales que resultan en muchas rigideces económicas. Algunas son compartidas con otros muchos sistemas urbanísticos, pero la legislación española presenta numerosas especificidades que deben ser analizadas de...

Despite a growing number of empirical studies on efficiency spillovers arising from the presence of multinational firms for a number of countries, general conclusions on this issue have been inhibited by differences in the data sets and estimation techniques used across studies. In this paper we...

El Consejo Europeo de Lisboa del año 2000 establece un objetivo para la Unión Europa en la próxima década: ser la economía del conocimiento más competitiva y dinámica del mundo. Uno de los aspectos de esta estrategia es el relativo a la creación de un entorno empresarial más dinámico...

Recent demographic changes have spurred pension reforms aimed at restoring the financial sustainability of PAYG systems. In Spain, the most significant reforms were undertaken in 1997 and in2002, entailing an increase in the length of the averaging period in the pension formula, an increase in...

Bismarckian social security systems are associated with larger public pension expenditures, a smaller fraction of private pension and lower income inequality than Beveridgean systems. This paper introduces a bidimensional voting model to account for all these features. Agents differ in age,...

This paper constitutes a theoretical approach to the study of the role that sample design plays in the quantification of the degree of wage inequality. Using the design of the 1995 Spanish Structure of Earnings Survey as reference framework, we offer a detailed description of the estimation and...