This article proposes a critical revision of the relationship between commercial integration openness and economic growth, being as it is one of the richest fields in the economic literature. The interest of its effects on economic growth is strengthened by the disparity of results, caused by...

This paper analyzes job transitions for part-time workers in Spain. The first section of the paper reviews existing literature that applies to the Spanish case. First, we selected a sample from the ‘continuous sample of work history 2005b’ of Spain’s Social Security, with individuals who...

Nowadays the sell of bottled water has increased its importance in the majority of the countries of Latin America, important investments of transnational and native capital are being made for its development . This paper presents the results of a study of the market needed by the farmers of the...

In the present paper it is proposed the introduction of a reform in the parental paid-leave system of Spain, so that the total equality between maternity and paternity leaves is obtained, as in the case of Germany or Iceland. In particular, it is supported a leave system that consists of...

This study shows that the average salary of teachers (in primary and secondary schools) in the province of Tucuman (Argentina) has not evolved uniformly in real terms in the period since the mid-1990s. Real salaries grew slowly between 1996 and 2001, declined significantly between 2002 and 2004,...

Economic analysis of crime and criminal law addresses the question of individual welfare (utility) maximization through optimal allocation of resources and time in accordance to their relative returns. In this paper I first summarize the theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between...

Este estudio tiene por objeto, por un lado, analizar el fenómeno del conservadurismo financiero o de deuda para una muestra de empresas españolas para el periodo 2007-2010 y relacionarlo con la variación de empleo de las mismas. Este conservadurismo se refiere a una política de endeudamiento...

Football sport marketing has been considered a tool, on economizing sports, producing the value added and an important solution for earning income through sports. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of football marketing in the country's economic boom, and the method of analytical...

La hipótesis de ‘overshooting’ del tipo de cambio de Dornbusch (1976) es una de las piezas centrales de la macroeconomía internacional. Este trabajo analiza los efectos de los choques monetarios y de otros choques macroeconómicos en el tipo de cambio real en el caso de una economía...

En este trabajo se analiza desde una perspectiva a largo plazo, si el desempeño cambiario del peso mexicano, presenta un comportamiento asimétrico recurrente frente al dólar norteamericano, y si dicho comportamiento tiene alguna influencia potencial en el consumo de derivados financieros por...