We analyse the evolution of Manufacturing Value-Added per inhabitant in 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries during the period 1980-2002, and present a comparison with more industrialized countries. We find that very few Latin American countries have experienced an increase in that variable...

This paper presents a general view of economic growth and the evolution of education and population in North America, Central America and South America, including a comparison of production per inhabitant in Agriculture, Industry and Services, and foreign trade. The leadership of USA and Canada...

This article presents a comparison of the evolution of employment rates by sector in Italy with the European Union averages. We analyse the main causes of the differences of the rates of non-agrarian employment, between northern and southern regions, as well as the inter-relation between the...

This article analyses the evolution of employment rates by sector in Germany, in comparison with the European Union averages. We explain the main causes of the differences of employment rates among regions, the inter-relation between the evolution of employment and the spatial distribution of...

Over recent decades some Latin American countries have experienced an important development due to the positive effect of tourism on the services sector. Our model relates tourism with the increase of Value-Added in services, taking into account other important variables which influence the...

We analyse causality between real values of expenditure on Research and Development, RD, and Gross Domestic Product, Gdp, in 15 countries of European Union and the United States for 1993-2003, by means of Granger´s test and an interdependent dynamic model. The lower averages of RD expenditure...

Analizamos el desarrollo económico de cinco países de Europa Central: Polonia, Hungría, República Checa, Eslovenia y Eslovaquia, durante el período 1950-2002. teniendo en cuenta las diferentes etapas de su evolución, en comparación con tres países de Europa Occidental que tenían al...

En este estudio, analizamos las migraciones interiores en España en el periodo 1980-2000 desde una perspectiva regional. Tratamos de demostrar que el actual patrón migratorio no responde únicamente a los determinantes económicos de los modelos explicativos tradicionales –empleo, salarios y...

En este artículo analizamos las principales diferencias regionales que existen en España y en Europa respecto al gasto en Investigación y Desarrollo, I+D, y la importancia que tiene el capital humano, tanto en Educación como en Investigación, para impulsar la producción y el empleo....